[Nix-dev] cache.nixos.org retention

[Richard Wallace]

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 <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
> 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.
>
> --
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