Re: ‘core-updates’ building!

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> I went ahead and started an evaluation of the full package set for
>> ‘core-updates’:
>>
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/core-updates
>>
>> I think we should focus on fixing remaining build issues now.
>
> Almost(?) all of the builds on armhf failed because of an early
> guile-2.2.2 build timing out after 1 hour of silence.
>
> I set the 'max-silent-time' property to 6 hours in the package bound to
> 'guile-2.2' in (gnu packages guile), but maybe the same property needs
> to be set elsewhere, e.g. in 'guile-2.2/fixed' and maybe some other
> places?

For now, in order to get the ball rolling, I started a manual build
(i.e. from the command line) of the timed-out derivation on Hydra,
with the --max-silent-time and --timeout options.  After that's
completed, we can restart the dependency-failed jobs.

      Mark