[Nix-dev] cache.nixos.org retention

[Richard Wallace]

Oh nevermind. I see what is going on now and the broken OS X build machine
does explain it. Thanks.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Richard Wallace <
rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/
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