06/06: grafts: Update the narinfo cache before building a derivation.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 264fdedb408ba3620d1e361de6c77e7925025301
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Mar 14 22:49:51 2016 +0100

    grafts: Update the narinfo cache before building a derivation.
    
    * guix/grafts.scm (references-oracle)[references*]: Add call to
    'substitution-oracle'.
---
 guix/grafts.scm |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/guix/grafts.scm b/guix/grafts.scm
index af46957..6bec999 100644
--- a/guix/grafts.scm
+++ b/guix/grafts.scm
@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ available."
     (guard (c ((nix-protocol-error? c)
                ;; As a last resort, build DRV and query the references of the
                ;; build result.
+
+               ;; Warm up the narinfo cache, otherwise each derivation build
+               ;; will result in one HTTP request to get one narinfo, which is
+               ;; much less efficient than fetching them all upfront.
+               (substitution-oracle store (list drv))
+
                (and (build-derivations store (list drv))
                     (map (cut references store <>) items))))
       (references/substitutes store items)))