From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/11] gnu: ncurses: support mingw. Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:26:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87d1l9102b.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160809064139.27872-1-janneke@gnu.org> <20160809064139.27872-8-janneke@gnu.org> <87ziof5m0t.fsf@netris.org> <87vaz2vvir.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43251) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZbaX-0001a8-Ou for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:27:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZbaV-0006VB-QP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 06:27:16 -0400 In-reply-to: <87vaz2vvir.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > > Hi Mark! > >> As I wrote elsewhere, this patch would force about 10000 rebuilds >> (across all four architectures), which would rule out applying it to >> master. > > That could very well be...I've been rebuilding quite a lot. Is there a > command I can run to get (an estimate of) the number of rebuilds that > a change triggers? The command “guix refresh -l package-name” gives you a very rough list of packages (on the same architecture) that would be affected by an update to “package-name”. This isn’t always correct, but in the case of ncurses it shows at least that a lot of packages are affected: guix refresh -l ncurses … Building the following 1018 packages would ensure 2616 dependent packages are rebuilt: … ~~ Ricardo