bug#26256: [PATCH 3/6] gnu: Add ceph.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> +                  (for-each delete-file-recursively
>>> +                            '(;; TODO: Unbundle these:
>>> +                              ;"src/isa-l"
>>> +                              ;"src/lua"
>>> +                              ;"src/googletest"
>>> +                              ;"src/xxHash"
>>> +                              ;"src/zstd"
>>> +                              ;"src/civetweb"
>>> +                              ;"src/Beast"
>>
>> Hopefully Lua and zstd would be easy to address, but yeah, we can leave
>> it for after.  :-)
>
> Yes, it's on my priority list, but figured it's better to have it
> available so that others can use it and help out. I keep picking this up
> every few weeks, but the build takes hours and so it's very tiring work.
>
> (also, poor Hydra!)
>
> The TODO list is:
>
> * make `ceph-disk` work for the tests (it works when installed)
> * make it build on ARM (apparently libaio is unsupported there)
> * unbundle more things
> * services! (I need more hardware first though :-))
>
> I'm committed to supporting this package, so please ping me about any
> problems (in Guix, or on your test cluster ;-))

Awesome.

> Also, I just built this to verify that it still works, but got two
> different test failures on two different machines, suggesting some tests
> are flaky. Perhaps I should just disable these two off the bat?

Maybe best to disable them, yes.

Thanks!

Ludo’.