From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: bo0od <bo0od@riseup.net>, 48166@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#48166: Dont stop the upgrade process - Better guix handling when Package failed to build
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 21:57:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgxal1aa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1DFBAD-68E9-4B7C-9610-222DAFF8A745@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Sun, 02 May 2021 21:50:39 -0400")
Hi,
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
> To do what you want (create a new generations ignoring failures) is not easy to implement. We would have to "change our mind" and build a different derivation for that new profile.
It’s also not desirable IMO: the way Guix operates is that either it
succeeds the operation you asked for, or it fails, but it never “changes
its mind” in the middle.
Instead, I think what would improve usability would be to notify the
user upfront when a package is known to fail to build. The build farm
could state that when it replies to narinfo requests, and ‘guix’
commands would print a warning or even stop upfront by default.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-02 20:29 bug#48166: Dont stop the upgrade process - Better guix handling when Package failed to build bo0od
2021-05-02 20:55 ` Leo Famulari
2021-05-03 1:00 ` bo0od
2021-05-03 1:50 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-05-03 2:25 ` bo0od
2021-05-04 19:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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