Package can have additional fields in guix repository, like architecture, version, buid_status, source_type build_status may contain such info. source_type could show if the package source url is one of those public git services (thus, user could enable proxy first).
Dec 15, 2018, 6:54 PM by bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:41:37 +0100 > Ricardo Wurmus <> rek...@elephly.net <mailto:rek...@elephly.net>> > wrote: > >> The default use case is for users to have substitutes enabled and to >> fetch binaries from a build farm. The build farm tries to build all >> packages, but not all builds succeed. The daemon caches build >> failures. >> >> This information, however, is not available for users. The default >> behaviour of Guix is to attempt building the package locally. This is >> fine for packages that the build farm hasn’t attempted yet, but it is >> a waste of time when the build has already been attempted without >> success. >> > > +1 > > Very good idea. > > Björn >
