From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Dealing with mass rebuilds Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:41:51 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpug9nsg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20151020161651.4759.8347@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <87zizd2ymv.fsf@netris.org> <8737x5e32l.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <20151020214716.GA7835@debian> <20151021102706.339f0758@debian-netbook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48512) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZowSe-0006F8-4p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:42:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZowSY-0000B4-E6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:42:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20151021102706.339f0758@debian-netbook> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:27:06 +0300") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Efraim Flashner skribis: > How much build infrastructure does nix have? (do they build all of staging > all the time?) Would it be possible to identify the subset of packages th= at > are immediately dependant on the updated package, and build only those as= a > test on hydra? =E2=80=98guix refresh -l=E2=80=99 provides that information. Hydra itself = always tries to build everything though. > That would be faster, but if something broke it'd be harder to > track down, a la =E7=99=BD=E3=81=84=E7=86=8A's conkeror issue. The Conkeror issue is a run-time issue though, one that is not revealed by its test suite apparently. Ludo=E2=80=99.