Re: “Which important packages fail to build?”

[Joshua Branson]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Guix!
>
> I’ve just added a new ‘--coverage’ option to ‘guix weather’.  The goal
> is to answer the question: “which important packages fail to build?”, or
> at least, “which important packages have no substitutes?”.  I believe
> this is what we want to know in particular to determine whether a branch
> can be merged.  Demonstration:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env  guix weather --substitute-urls=https://ci.guix.info -c 10
> computing 8,983 package derivations for x86_64-linux...
> looking for 9,343 store items on https://ci.guix.info...
> updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0%
> https://ci.guix.info
>   64.7% substitutes available (6,048 out of 9,343)
>   18,642.5 MiB of nars (compressed)
>   54,068.6 MiB on disk (uncompressed)
>   0.018 seconds per request (164.6 seconds in total)
>   56.8 requests per second
>   'https://ci.guix.info/api/queue?nr=1000' returned 504 ("Gateway Time-out")
> updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0%
> 2502 packages are missing from 'https://ci.guix.info' for 'x86_64-linux', 
> among which:
>     58  address@hidden      
> /gnu/store/8v69bzi29rla9q952ajgpsvsb7k955l6-kcoreaddons-5.49.0
>     47  address@hidden      
> /gnu/store/8v69bzi29rla9q952ajgpsvsb7k955l6-kcoreaddons-5.49.0
>     46  address@hidden   
> /gnu/store/rgvjzck002diandc1nhkw0dy1p9zqaw2-qgpgme-1.11.1
>     37  address@hidden       
> /gnu/store/2npd0vs3ipyqms06kbgh7ialp9n0fr6m-perl-http-cookiejar-0.008
>     30  address@hidden   
> /gnu/store/rgvjzck002diandc1nhkw0dy1p9zqaw2-qgpgme-1.11.1
>     26  address@hidden      
> /gnu/store/siv42br9h06i1zhmmj6s2qian45zacgm-ocaml4.02-ppx-deriving-4.1
>     18  address@hidden 
> /gnu/store/p5adbp7bhvjzpjxr8brnfm52imqc4f07-ruby-ansi-1.5.0
>     16  address@hidden        
> /gnu/store/vs9ddw7avffmnzxcknvyazay29vihy28-cl-rt-1990.12.19
>     16  address@hidden       
> /gnu/store/765znwnf4bxdaz82akx60pkx2ac59fyn-ecl-rt-1990.12.19
>     13  address@hidden        
> /gnu/store/lyj6w0p9v3kfkzmar1pd46qlg36zp7dd-ecl-trivial-gray-streams-0.0.0-1.0483ade
>     11  address@hidden        
> /gnu/store/jxf63lbwv2rg95pf5zmznjzv8s367xqc-ruby-brass-1.2.1
>     11  address@hidden  
> /gnu/store/6dacx02mn2skwbiajfwnx1q0fk5iw05y-ruby-rspec-expectations-2.14.5
>     11  address@hidden 
> /gnu/store/9lirirccwslkghpps1al23m7pdi5yw1b-ruby-rspec-mocks-2.14.6
>     11  address@hidden  
> /gnu/store/xrpaql4jldvvd08im37x8k42crsxpip0-ruby-rspec-core-2.14.8
>     11  address@hidden    
> /gnu/store/l23p319knfzygsc38zxf7l5g892bqy1z-ecl-slynk-boot0-1.0.0-beta-2.cbf84c3
>     11  address@hidden  
> /gnu/store/7f87w09iinxv06dld394x7w47chcy3ip-python2-oslotest-3.4.0
>     10  address@hidden        
> /gnu/store/gw4mzjlwlf010ijhyznhr5sjmpxizl9v-pt-scotch-6.0.5a

As an aside, should Icecat be on this list?  I keep having to use "guix package
--do-not-upgrade=icecat -u", because Icecat takes forever to build, and
I'm not certain that I have enough memory to build it.

However,

#BEGIN_SRC sh
icecat --version
#END_SRC

#+:RESULTS:
GNU IceCat 60.3.0


BUT why does guix package -u try to rebuild Icecat?

#BEGIN_SRC sh
guix package -u
guix package: warning: package 'jmacs' no longer exists
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.info'... 100.0%
building /gnu/store/r583x6jd6qlb7im42c0awmj6jvi1g13c-icecat-60.3.0-gnu1.drv...
#END_SRC


P.S. jmacs is my attempt to have a "custom" Emacs.  It's basically Emacs
with additional modules installed.

Thanks,

Joshua

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Joshua Branson
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