From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: 30647@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30647] [PATCH] guix build: Support '--remote-log-file=PACKAGE'.
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:30:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tbb4h7f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87606f3it9.fsf@gmail.com> (Oleg Pykhalov's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:40:50 +0300")
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>>>> ‘--remote-log-file’ allows to get a URL for a build log file on a substitute
>>>>> server regardless is it built locally. ‘--log-file’ returns always local
>>>>> build log file.
>>>>
>>>> What did you think of having ‘--log-file’ transparently fall back to
>>>> searching for log files on substitute servers?
>>
>> To put it differently: what do you dislike about the current behavior?
>
> Suppose package build failed locally. I want to receive a log from a
> remote server. I could do it manually by:
>
> 1. Removing local failed log.
> 2. ‘wget’, but I need to know a URL.
The URL scheme is documented and easy to use (info "(guix) Invoking guix
publish"). That’s why I don’t find wget to be much of a problem.
>> No no: keep the current behavior, but print something when we’re looking
>> for a remote log file (currently it silently checks whether the remote
>> log file is available.)
>
> Still not clear to me. If ‘guix --log-file’ checks for a remote log
> file, then it gets a valid URL to a remote build log file for free,
> doesn't it?
Correct. See ‘log-url’ in (guix scripts build).
>>> I don't think mixing those in one output is good, because for example
>>> you cannot do like:
>>>
>>> diff -u <(guix build --log-file hello) <(guix build --remote-log-file hello)
>>
>> I see. I guess I’ve never wanted that, or rather, when I do, I
>> explicitly wget the remote log file. :-)
>
> Could I ask What's your workflow for ‘wget’?
Something like:
$ guix build foo
/gnu/store/xyz-foo
$ wget -O log https://berlin.guixsd.org/log/xyz-foo
>>> As a better approach in addition to ‘--no-substitutes’, maybe we could
>>> implement ‘--only-substitutes’ (as I remember Nix has it)? Such flag
>>> will return a remote log file and will avoid building packages locally.
>>
>> That could be an option, but that’s much more work (not limited to log
>> file handling.)
>
> Yes, but benefits (especially avoid building packages locally) are
> worth.
>
> If you don't agree with the patch, I'll not complain and will try to
> work on ‘--only-substitutes’. :-)
Heheh. :-)
IIRC, --only-substitutes in Nix is used together with --upgrade, no?
Some considered it questionable from a security standpoint when we last
discussed it: <https://bugs.gnu.org/26608>.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-01 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-28 14:19 [bug#30647] [PATCH] guix build: Support '--remote-log-file=PACKAGE' Oleg Pykhalov
2018-02-28 22:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-01 4:19 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-01 13:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-01 15:40 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-01 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-03-01 15:16 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-03-01 21:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
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