From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag. Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 20:10:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20160719164916.6597-1-david@craven.ch> <20160719164916.6597-5-david@craven.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPZTU-0006BJ-9X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:10:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPZTP-0005eW-8e for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:10:31 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x241.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::241]:36622) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPZTO-0005d6-21 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:10:27 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x241.google.com with SMTP id u134so1664531ywg.3 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:10:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Cc: guix-devel , Guix-devel @Tobias: yep that sounds like a better solution. Case closed. I was thinking about the package development workflow as a whole, after waiting for chromium to unpack and patch-shebangs for the nth time I got annoyed. This is one of the three improvements I was thinking about. I thought I'd start with low hanging fruit. The other two are: 1. I'd like to use overlay fs (like docker) and create a new overlay for each phase to easily revert a phase. 2. I'd like logs for each phase to be put into separate files and automatically written to disk inside the build directory. * It's hard to find the logs of a particular phase. * If build directory isn't kept then the logs are automatically deleted David