[Nix-dev] nix&bindist

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 06:34:40PM +0200, Nicolas Pierron wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:36, Yury G.  Kudryashov
> <urkud.urkud at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gentoo has 'bindist' use flag to mark whether the binary packages will be
> > distributed in binary form. What about introducing some variable (say,
> > nixpkgs.config.isBuildfarm) to mark that the result of the build is
> > available to download? Then packages can assert !isBuildfarm;
> >
> > In the ideal world we should have some license manager that automatically
> > calculates the license of each package but it does not seem trivial to
> > implement...
> 
> This can be a property of the license expression such as
> "lib.licenses.proprietary.distribute", which is better localized than
> the "meta.isBuildfarm".  Thus we don't have to care about license
> violation if we can ensure that licenses are correctly set and that
> each license is well define.

Hydra distributes all binaries that it builds. Do you mean that hydra should
build (and report) some derivations, but not distribute them?