From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: How to force rebuilding a pacakge? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 11:26:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20160602152628.GC17161@jasmine> References: <57502D46.3020607@crazy-compilers.com> 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]:33722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UWE-000099-33 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:26:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UW7-0001aQ-3F for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:26:44 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:58169) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8UW5-0001Wb-PH for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:26:39 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57502D46.3020607@crazy-compilers.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:57:42PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I just try (force-) rebuilding some package (python-scikit-learn), I do > not succeed: > > - guix build … simply fetches the package from hydra > - guix build --no-substitutes … rebuilds an lot of other stuff , e.g. > fontforge-dist > - guix build --check … does not provide a meaningful build log > - guix build --check --log-file … does not provide a meaningful build > log either > guix gc -d /gnu/store/*python-scikit-learn* does not change this In the past couple days, we took some changes from upstream Nix daemon code (7f3b2510d) that change the way --check works. I haven't tried it yet, but it seems that it will allow you to keep build logs if you pass --keep-failed and if the build differs from the previous iterations. If it does not differ, then it shouldn't matter :)