Florian Paul Schmidt <mista.ta...@gmx.net> skribis: > Attached is a first stab at fixing this. There are additional options > to guix-daemons now: > > --cache-failures cache build failures > --cache-hook-failures cache build failures due to hook failures > (depends > on cache-failures) > --cache-timeout-failures cache build failures due to timeouts > (depends > on cache-failures)
OK. I’m unsure whether it makes sense to cache failures due to timeout because, by definition, they’re non-deterministic. Another problem is that clients can choose what the timeout is (both max-silent-time and absolute max-time), so it’d be easy for a client to force a timeout failure; on a multi-user system, that would amount to a DoS attack. I’m not sure how to address these issues, so I’m rather in favor of the status quo. WDYT? Thanks, Ludo’.
