bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so
MATE cannot be installed.  I guess I should have tested more before
release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug if
really not much can be done), however maybe a more thorough testing
checklist or automation may be helpful for future releases.

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Florian,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so
> MATE cannot be installed.  I guess I should have tested more before
> release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug if
> really not much can be done), however maybe a more thorough testing
> checklist or automation may be helpful for future releases.

Bah indeed.  pluma and mate-applets both fail to build.  :-/

I agree we need more automation here.  One way to do this would be
something like ‘make assert-binaries-available’, which checks for
substitute availability (it could be a prerequisite of ‘make dist’),
where we’d explicitly check for DEs on x86_64 and i686.  That would be
an improvement, though it’d still be quite handcrafted.

Ludo’.

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Florian,
>
> "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
>
>> mate-applets failed to build multiple times in the Guix 1.0 ISO, so
>> MATE cannot be installed.  I guess I should have tested more before
>> release; not much can be done about it now (you may close this bug if
>> really not much can be done), however maybe a more thorough testing
>> checklist or automation may be helpful for future releases.
>
> Bah indeed.  pluma and mate-applets both fail to build.  :-/

I have fixed them shortly after the release.  This doesn’t help users of
the release, of course.

-- 
Ricardo

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:04:18PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I agree we need more automation here.  One way to do this would be
> something like ‘make assert-binaries-available’, which checks for
> substitute availability (it could be a prerequisite of ‘make dist’),
> where we’d explicitly check for DEs on x86_64 and i686.  That would be
> an improvement, though it’d still be quite handcrafted.
> 
> Ludo’.

This overlaps with the need for (eventually) a stable branch, I think.

Regards,
Florian

bug#35539: Add more release testing automation for Guix releases

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> I agree we need more automation here.  One way to do this would be
> something like ‘make assert-binaries-available’, which checks for
> substitute availability (it could be a prerequisite of ‘make dist’),
> where we’d explicitly check for DEs on x86_64 and i686.

I did that in 762ba22efe01006d959503dc368ee54b16ccea31; 1.0.1 will
definitely have substitutes for MATE, GNOME, etc.

There’s surely still room for improvement in that area, but let’s open
more specific bugs as we see fit.

Thanks,
Ludo’.