Hi, On 09/12/14 23:47, Richard Wallace wrote:
> I'm just wondering what the retention policy is on cache.nixos.org > <http://cache.nixos.org>. I just went to build a project on a new OS X > machine > that is using a nixpkgs from a few weeks ago. I was surprised to see that > many > basic packages like zlib, gnu tools, perl and a bevy of others weren't fetched > from the cache but were built from scratch. > > My best guess as to why is that it's because maybe the retention policy on > cache.nixos.org <http://cache.nixos.org> is less than I thought. If there is > another explanation I would love to hear it, otherwise I may be needing to set > up a proxy for these situations. Actually, there is currently *no* garbage collection on cache.nixos.org at all, binaries are kept forever. The actual problem is that our Mac OS X build machine broke down so there are no up-to-date OS X binaries in the Nixpkgs channel. -- Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
