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* [bug#28484] Some steps and questions for Cuirass
@ 2017-09-17 20:11 Jan Nieuwenhuizen
  2017-09-17 20:11 ` [bug#28485] [PATCH 1/3] base: Make working copy writable Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen @ 2017-09-17 20:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 28484

When Cuirass creates a new working directory from a guix.git clone, it tries
to build guix but fails like this

    /gnu/store/jqs80jq4j9z06p2vb9f7djv9k7jmc3d4-profile/bin/msgmerge: cannot create output file "de.po": Permission denied
    make[3]: *** [Makefile:255: de.po] Error 1
    make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

...although that may be a feature?

Patch 1/3 fixes this build problem...however now Cuirass rebuilds *all* of
guix (.go files) for each update of guix.git that it tracks.  When playing
with Cuirass to set it up, it's handy to only build `hello'.  Rebuilding all
of guix for each commit even if it fast-forwards, do we need/want that?

Patch 2/3 allows to test with other packages than "hello" or everything by
using a spec like

     ((#:name . "guix")
      (#:url . "git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git")
      (#:load-path . ".")
      (#:file . "examples/gnu-system.scm")
      (#:proc . hydra-jobs)
      (#:arguments (subset . ("hello" "grep")))
      (#:branch . "master"))

Because this build recipe and thus this feature belongs in the repository
we're building, I also added a patch (the last one) for Guix itself that
implements this.

Patch 3/3 is the one I'm least happy with.  When building many more packages
than only `hello', Cuirass will not give any feedback until after everything
is built.  The Emacs interface under M-x guix-hydra-latests-builds is very
nice, but polling for that less so.

As the comment in the file already says

    ;; Register the results in the database.
    ;; XXX: The 'build-derivations' call is blocking so we end updating the
    ;; database potentially long after things have been built.

we probably want feedback (or guix-hydra-latests-builds availability) per
package...but any ideas how to do that?  We'd have to wrap/closure that into
building the derivations?

Greetings,
janneke

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2017-09-18 15:48     ` bug#28488: Acknowledgement ([PATCH 3/3] base: Show feedback when build has finished.) Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-17 20:11 ` [bug#28487] [PATCH] cuirass: Add gnu-system build spec Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-26  8:18   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-26 17:56     ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-26 18:05       ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-26 20:29       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-27 18:55         ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-27 19:45           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-27 20:32             ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-27 20:52               ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-28  8:26                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-28 15:41                   ` bug#28487: " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-28  8:27               ` [bug#28487] " Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-28 16:04                 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-09-18 11:51 ` [bug#28484] Some steps and questions for Cuirass Mathieu Othacehe
2017-09-18 15:44   ` bug#28484: " Jan Nieuwenhuizen

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