Re: Building the core-updates branch.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

> The evaluation of the core-updates branch on Cuirass has been broken for
> a long time. It now appears to be fixed[1]. This means that around 45k
> packages must be built. Each change on this branch can possibly trigger
> the same amount of builds.
>
> Even if the core-updates builds have to the lowest priority on the CI,
> and the CI is performing a bit better, I'm not sure building this branch
> is reasonable for now. I feel like we should first focus on providing
> substitutes for the master, guix-modular-master and staging branches
> consistently and on all architectures before trying to build
> core-updates.

Agreed, I think that was the intent.  Can we make it focus on the ‘core’
subset?  How does one do that nowadays?  Looks like my sqlite3/Cuirass
foo is no longer helpful.  :-)

Ludo’.