Re: Failures without internet connection

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Download of substituted binaries fails when one is offline. This is 
> logical, but should guix then not gracefully fall back to compilation if 
> the sources have already been downloaded?

I just added the ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”.
So by default you get an error, with a message from the daemon telling
you to try ‘--fallback’.  The difference is that now the option actually
exists.  ;-)

> In any case, catching the error and emitting an error message would 
> probably be preferable to

Yes.  Fixed by commit cf5d2ca.

> In the past, I think I also ran into a similar problem even when using "--
> no-substitutes", as guix tried in vain to check for newer versions of gnu 
> packages, but I cannot reproduce this problem now.

There should not be any problem with that now, but perhaps that was
fixed recently (maybe commit 91fe0e20c7da2b706a1ac0e7b75235b6c1e6ed0a).

Thanks!

Ludo’.