From cd4d2705ec6e641ffa3b11dc1aabad22fc38251a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 14:18:46 +0200
Subject: build-remote: Fix fallback to other machines when connecting fails

Opening an SSHStore or LegacySSHStore does not actually establish a
connection, so the try/catch block here did nothing. Added a
Store::connect() method to test whether a connection can be
established.
---
 src/libstore/store-api.hh | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/libstore/store-api.hh')

diff --git a/src/libstore/store-api.hh b/src/libstore/store-api.hh
index 8ca3f4b27d06..b06f5d86a93a 100644
--- a/src/libstore/store-api.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/store-api.hh
@@ -582,6 +582,10 @@ public:
         state.lock()->pathInfoCache.clear();
     }
 
+    /* Establish a connection to the store, for store types that have
+       a notion of connection. Otherwise this is a no-op. */
+    virtual void connect() { };
+
 protected:
 
     Stats stats;
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