Yes, but it is very cumbersome. I can no longer just "reconfigure" my home or system, but have to manually to a build for all packages with the correct parameters first. Same for guix shell; I'd have to first split them into "with offload" and "without offload".
I guess what I would like is at least that the sources for the builds to be downloaded by the build server instead of transferred by my system. But this might be a side effect of sources being built as store items? So it's a dependency for the build, and passed to the build server so it doesn't have to compute it? Maybe having a size limit for passing to the build server could be a solution. If an item is greater than the threshold, the build server will compute it. On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 12:00, Edouard Klein wrote: > I may be mistaken, but you I think you can run guix build a with > offloading, and guix build b c without, then when you run guix shell, a, > b, and c will all be in your store and won't need to be rebuilt. > > > Simen Endsjø <cont...@simendsjo.me> writes: > > > Yes, that's what I'm using, but it's not granular. The problem is things > > like `guix shell a b c`. > > - a has a small source and long build time > > - b has a large source and short build time > > - c has a large output > > > > a is no problem to offload, but b will cause a lot of unnecessary traffic, > > and I might want to run c locally to to avoid passing a lot of data. > > > > I cannot tell --no-offload skip b and c, so If I have a single problematic > > package in my system, home or in a guix shell, I have to disable offloading > > for all packages. > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2024, at 10:14, Hilton Chain wrote: > >> Hi Simen, > >> > >> On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:57:26 +0800, > >> Simen Endsjø wrote: > >> > > >> > I notice package sources are sent to offload servers. I have a build > >> > that has > >> > 1.9GB sources, and results in a 4.7GB store item. I would have thought > >> > only the > >> > definitions were sent to the build machine, and it would download the > >> > 1.9GB > >> > file, but it seems this file is sent from my machine. I cannot see a way > >> > around > >> > this, and it makes it difficult to combine this package with packages I > >> > wish to > >> > offload as I cannot state certain packages shouldn't be offloaded. > >> > > >> > Not sure what I'm asking here, just wanted to point out an issue which > >> > causes > >> > problems. > >> > >> Guix commands that can spawn builds have a ‘--no-offload’ option, you can > >> see > >> more these options here[1]. > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> --- > >> [1]: > >> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Common-Build-Options.html > >> >
