From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Best-practice to "develop" a system-config / service? Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 11:44:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87bmk6v4o1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po8phx0d.fsf@gnu.org> <132a3313-27ac-210c-8156-41fa3e06d46f@crazy-compilers.com> <87tvy0hqis.fsf@gnu.org> <4979aced-2139-7994-9b0f-cf8d7b20f2f5@crazy-compilers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eECEX-0002Tk-Qz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:44:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eECET-0007UZ-RL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:44:53 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:51113) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eECET-0007UI-KH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:44:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4979aced-2139-7994-9b0f-cf8d7b20f2f5@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 12 Nov 2017 16:50:26 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: guix-devel Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 11.11.2017 um 14:51 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> Well, I=E2=80=99ve always used the above approach to test system service= s as I >> worked on them, and the 10=E2=80=9330 seconds it took for =E2=80=98guix = system vm=E2=80=99 to >> complete as I tweak the service were never that much of a hindrance to >> me. > > JFYI: Building a new VM takes more than 90 seconds on my system. With =E2=80=98guix system vm=E2=80=99, right? I guess it also depends on t= he number of things that need to be built, but 90 seconds remains acceptable IMO. Ludo=E2=80=99.