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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Cc: 40867-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40867: guix build --rounds=N is miss advising
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:59:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1q7qfni.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb881076-097a-fa7c-ac0d-e05e5f737f9a@web.de> (Jonathan Brielmaier's message of "Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:30:07 +0200")

Hi,

Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> writes:

> The help section for `guix build --rounds=N` in 7.1.1 Common Build
> Options is miss advising.
>
> ```
> Note that, currently, the differing build results are not kept
> around, so you will have to manually investigate in case of an
> error—e.g., by stashing one of the build results with ‘guix archive
> --export’ (*note Invoking guix archive::), then rebuilding, and finally
> comparing the two results.
> ```
>
> Should rather endorse `guix build --rounds=N --keep-failed` as this
> option preservers all differing builds, not only one. This option was
> proposed by Marius Bakke in IRC.

Fixed with commit 5918cb5341; closing.

Thanks for the report!

Maxim




      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-09 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-26 12:30 bug#40867: guix build --rounds=N is miss advising Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-10-09 20:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]

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