Oh nevermind. I see what is going on now and the broken OS X build machine does explain it. Thanks.
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Richard Wallace < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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