[Nix-dev] Binary patches

Lluís Batlle i Rossell viric at viric.name
Mon Apr 22 18:36:29 CEST 2013


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 06:15:43PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 15/04/13 11:39, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> 
> > I've the impression that these last weeks, nix is not using binary patches.
> > 
> > Are binary patches still produced by the farm? Do they simply came quite later?
> > Maybe I've the wrong impression?
> 
> The binary cache substituter doesn't support binary patches, unfortunately.  And
> binary patch generation is currently broken in the build farm.

Oh ok. I wasn't aware of that.

Is it in the agenda of anyone, to make that work? Or should we forget? :)

Thank you!


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