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Some steps and questions for Cuirass |
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:11:53 +0200 |
When Cuirass creates a new working directory from a guix.git clone, it tries
to build guix but fails like this
/gnu/store/jqs80jq4j9z06p2vb9f7djv9k7jmc3d4-profile/bin/msgmerge: cannot
create output file "de.po": Permission denied
make[3]: *** [Makefile:255: de.po] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
...although that may be a feature?
Patch 1/3 fixes this build problem...however now Cuirass rebuilds *all* of
guix (.go files) for each update of guix.git that it tracks. When playing
with Cuirass to set it up, it's handy to only build `hello'. Rebuilding all
of guix for each commit even if it fast-forwards, do we need/want that?
Patch 2/3 allows to test with other packages than "hello" or everything by
using a spec like
((#:name . "guix")
(#:url . "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git")
(#:load-path . ".")
(#:file . "examples/gnu-system.scm")
(#:proc . hydra-jobs)
(#:arguments (subset . ("hello" "grep")))
(#:branch . "master"))
Because this build recipe and thus this feature belongs in the repository
we're building, I also added a patch (the last one) for Guix itself that
implements this.
Patch 3/3 is the one I'm least happy with. When building many more packages
than only `hello', Cuirass will not give any feedback until after everything
is built. The Emacs interface under M-x guix-hydra-latests-builds is very
nice, but polling for that less so.
As the comment in the file already says
;; Register the results in the database.
;; XXX: The 'build-derivations' call is blocking so we end updating the
;; database potentially long after things have been built.
we probably want feedback (or guix-hydra-latests-builds availability) per
package...but any ideas how to do that? We'd have to wrap/closure that into
building the derivations?
Greetings,
janneke
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Re: [bug#28484] Some steps and questions for Cuirass |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:44:08 +0200 |
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Mathieu Othacehe writes:
> I don't think so, patch 1 & 2 LGTM.
Thanks!
> Now that Cuirass supports M-x guix-hydra-latests-builds, the next step
> is to detect build start/stop (maybe via guix build log parsing see:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-07/msg00221.html).
>
> This way, for each new commit in guix, cuirass will only insert in
> database the derivation that were built. Plus, it will be possible to
> insert the build in db when it starts and update its status when it
> stops/fails.
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for sharing this thread.
> Until this is developed, patch 3 LGTM too !
Thanks, pushed to guix-cuirass master as
87ad259dba7de38b6e3ab954cd7b2f655358d877
janneke
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