That's odd, because I built this project on an OS X machine a few weeks ago and I definitely didn't have to built those packages. They were pulled from the nixos cache.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Eelco Dolstra <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >
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