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authorEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2010-08-04 12:13:58 +0000
committerEelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>2010-08-04 12:13:58 +0000
commit7f893b7a43fdca728fd1f7a72e51d31d2a6e7147 (patch)
tree16c0e1f63820e841d211c6280e42da181bc80566 /src/nix-worker
parent87ef5907e97f455bd4064f4d6e5f3c972402a8b9 (diff)
* Allow derivations to hint that they should not be built remotely
using the build hook mechanism, by setting the derivation attribute "preferLocalBuild" to true. This has a few use cases: - The user environment builder. Since it just creates a bunch of symlinks without much computation, there is no reason to do it remotely. In fact, doing it remotely requires the entire closure of the user environment to be copied to the remote machine, which is extremely wasteful. - `fetchurl'. Performing the download on a remote machine and then copying it to the local machine involves twice as much network traffic as performing the download locally, and doesn't save any CPU cycles on the local machine.
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