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From: Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: State of core-updates
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 19:55:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h6usbfnf.fsf@jpoiret.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZAtFp/uT6Z0N3XmN@jurong>

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Hi Andreas,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> let me start with a call for help! I realise that it takes me about one
> week and something close to 100GB on my poor 2-core laptop to rebuild
> the bulk of core-updates up to the packages in my profile, and that is not
> sustainable. It also forces me to do a "guix gc" between two runs, with
> the danger of either doing it too late and having to restart the builds
> (lived experience, one week lost), or losing and having to recompile
> store items that effectively have not changed.
>
> So it would be nice if someone could set up a more complete job for
> core-updates on cuirass or QA, and maybe write up a how-to to see which
> packages work and which ones need more love, preferably by architecture.

I agree, I've wanted to help but between substitutes not being there for
a lot of costly packages (llvm/mesa comes to mind) and not knowing in
advance what failures there are doesn't help.

> Since the bootstrapping seems to have stabilised, that would allow more
> people to work on packages closer to the leaves, since most of what
> currently builds would be available as substitutes from the build farm
> without everybody needing to go through a one-week compilation project.
>
> Here is my eclectic selection of packages I would add to the job:
> - guix (builds)
> - icecat (builds)
> - ungoogled-chromium (probably also builds)
> - openjdk (pulls in rust!, and builds)
> - unison (pulls in ocaml, and builds)
> - calibre (pulls in qt@5 and python; the former builds, the latter still
>   has some problems, among which the python bindings to qt, and packages
>   failing their tests even when updating to the latest release)
> - pandoc (pulls in ghc, which currently fails its tests @9.2.5)
> Please suggest more leaf packages that exercise your favourite missing
> language or application domain!

I would add gdm, xfce, gnome as those are part of most people's default
configuration.  sway is probably another good candidate.  I cannot wait
to delve into gnome-shell's gjs code again! (not)

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 14:58 State of core-updates Andreas Enge
2023-03-10 18:24 ` Christopher Baines
2023-03-12 11:21   ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-10 18:55 ` Josselin Poiret [this message]
2023-03-11 12:16   ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-13 14:14 ` Simon Tournier
2023-03-14 20:43   ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-03 15:15     ` Simon Tournier
2023-03-14  9:27 ` Roman Scherer
2023-03-14 10:32   ` Josselin Poiret
2023-03-14 11:20     ` Roman Scherer
2023-03-14 15:50 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-14 18:02   ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15  0:56     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-15  7:54       ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 11:33         ` Efraim Flashner
2023-03-15 13:35           ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 13:35           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-15 13:27         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-15 16:34       ` Notes from the Guix Days Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-15 18:21         ` Pjotr Prins
2023-03-17 15:07         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-04-11 14:05           ` Debugging Guix beyond pk (was Re: Notes from the Guix Days) Simon Tournier
2023-04-11 18:32             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-15 13:33   ` State of core-updates Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 14:56     ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 17:59       ` Kaelyn
2023-03-17 20:01         ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-17 20:17           ` Kaelyn
2023-03-17 20:27             ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2023-03-17 20:43               ` Kaelyn
2023-03-18  8:56                 ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-18 16:36                   ` Kaelyn
2023-03-18 17:31                     ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-18  9:39         ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 19:20       ` Felix Lechner
2023-03-17 16:40         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-16 13:50       ` Offloading problems on berlin Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-16 20:40         ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-16 20:55           ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-22 14:16             ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-16 21:25           ` Kaelyn
2023-03-17 12:15             ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-17 16:35           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-03-17 13:21         ` bug#61839: " Andreas Enge
2023-03-16  9:33     ` State of core-updates Björn Höfling
2023-03-16 10:05       ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-15 16:47 ` Building more of ‘core-updates’ on ci.guix Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-18 15:31   ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-22 14:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-03-30  9:20       ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-30 11:21         ` Andreas Enge
2023-03-31  8:54           ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-07 13:22             ` Andreas Enge
2023-04-08 10:28               ` Josselin Poiret
2023-04-10 15:49                 ` core-updates sprint (was: Building more of ‘core-updates’ on ci.guix) Andreas Enge
2023-04-11 14:47                 ` Building more of ‘core-updates’ on ci.guix Simon Tournier

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