From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: how to get the path of the logfile after an unsuccesful build? Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:49:46 -0500 Message-ID: <87po4c7wcl.fsf@netris.org> References: <20180309091549.lris2yvh3uh65and@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36766) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPuc-0001uf-0s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:50:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPuX-0002cT-5u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:50:50 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:46120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPuW-0002PK-W0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:50:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20180309091549.lris2yvh3uh65and@abyayala> (ng0@n0.is's message of "Fri, 9 Mar 2018 09:15:49 +0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org ng0 writes: > did we ever talk about that there's too little information on how to get > the current log file of a failed build? I need this right now (the full log) > and I can't remember how, and making use of the log folder in var/log/guix/ won't > help either. Why won't /var/log/guix help? To see the most recent build logs for a given package, say 'icecat', I do this: ls -ltr /var/log/guix/drvs/*/*-icecat* | tail This might not work for offloaded builds, though. Mark