Re: Building many packages in order

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:56:08PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> testing the new python build system I’m seeking for some way to build
> *many* packages in order.
> 
> Of course I can just run `guix build` with the list of packages to be
> build. But when building all python packages, the list gets rather long
> and does not fit into one call of `guix build` (due to the number of
> arguments xargs passes to the command is restricted). Thus only
> partitions of the packages are build in order.
>  
> So I need some way for passing *all* packages to be build to `guix build`.
> 
> Any hints?
> 

If you want to build all packages that are python- or python2-, then you
can call 'guix build $(guix package -A ^python | cut -f1)'

If you want all the packages that rely on python or python-2, then you
can call 'guix build $(guix refresh -l python python@2 | cut -d':' -f2)'

Both of these as written will stop when they encounter a package that
doesn't build. I'm sure there's also a scheme-y way of doing it.


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