build-remote: Don't copy the .drv closure

Since build-remote uses buildDerivation() now, we don't need to copy
the .drv file anymore. This greatly reduces the set of input paths
copied to the remote side (e.g. from 392 to 51 store paths for GNU
hello on x86_64-darwin).

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/build-remote/build-remote.cc b/src/build-remote/build-remote.cc
index f3195f6317..1ee8a625b6 100644
--- a/src/build-remote/build-remote.cc
+++ b/src/build-remote/build-remote.cc
@@ -269,8 +269,11 @@ connected:
         copyPaths(store, ref<Store>(sshStore), inputs);
         uploadLock = -1;
 
-        printError("building ‘%s’ on ‘%s’", drvPath, hostName);
-        sshStore->buildDerivation(drvPath, readDerivation(drvPath));
+        BasicDerivation drv(readDerivation(drvPath));
+        drv.inputSrcs = inputs;
+
+        printError("building ‘%s’ on ‘%s’", drvPath, storeUri);
+        sshStore->buildDerivation(drvPath, drv);
 
         PathSet missing;
         for (auto & path : outputs)