From: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>,
Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>,
Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Time travel accident
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2023 12:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3571F98C-E1B5-4F88-96F2-4B9242E3A599@lepiller.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v8i86qng.fsf@jpoiret.xyz>
Changing your system date should let it build.
Le 7 avril 2023 10:30:11 GMT+02:00, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> a écrit :
>Hi Konrad,
>
>Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net> writes:
>
>> I guess there is nothing we can do retroactively to fix this, but can we
>> do something to prevent such issues in the future?
>>
>> One idea is to allow disabling tests at the command line. I'd then run
>> "guix build" for that specific package with tests disabled, and
>> continue. That should be doable with a suitable package transformation.
>
>We have --without-tests=package already, see --help-transform for all
>available package transformations. The one annoying thing is that
>disabling tests will change the derivation and you thus will not recover
>the same store item (it might be bit-for-bit equivalent, but its path
>will not be the same), preventing you from using substitutes either.
>
>Though, I'm not sure it will help you here because openssl is built as
>part of the `guix time-machine`'s build process, which afaik cannot be
>transformed.
>
>By the way, we can also "fix the past" by using guix/quirks.scm. Since
>that version of openssl doesn't build anymore, I wonder if we could just
>change its derivation retroactively to at least make it build.
>
>Best,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-07 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-07 7:47 Time travel accident Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-07 8:30 ` Josselin Poiret
2023-04-07 10:07 ` Julien Lepiller [this message]
2023-04-07 16:10 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-07 17:39 ` Julien Lepiller
2023-04-11 15:20 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-12 10:17 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-12 14:09 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-13 8:14 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-12 11:03 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-12 12:53 ` Konrad Hinsen
2023-04-07 17:26 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-17 13:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-17 17:50 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-17 22:16 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-04-18 9:39 ` Simon Tournier
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