Re: State of core-updates

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 02:33:36PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge:
> I more or less tried this by building things on berlin; however, big
> packages (?, precisely: openjdk checkout (not even building!), ghc@9.2.5
> and llvm-for-mesa) failed complaining about a 3600s timeout because of
> silence. All of them build locally; hopefully this problem will disappear
> once we pass through cuirass.

Actually it also helped to build a few packages one by one from the command
line, instead of many of them at once. So now there should be mesa on berlin.

ghc however still fails with a message like this:
building /gnu/store/i7b6ffy3jp8adanvkj7zbv3mb5cdsxnq-ghc-9.2.5.drv...
guix offload: sending 66 store items (1,884 MiB) to '141.80.167.166'...
exporting path `/gnu/store/8smlivxisga3y7fz3q5qkvrnpsbvr6c4-ghc-8.10.7-testsuite.tar.xz-builder'
...
exporting path `/gnu/store/fgr6i273g6wa88w6h95sgpb5c1yr751c-ghc-8.10.7'
exporting path `/gnu/store/grd39lms6g8pg3r1zlvz7a5qwlymybhy-ghc-9.2.5-src.tar.xz'

building of `/gnu/store/i7b6ffy3jp8adanvkj7zbv3mb5cdsxnq-ghc-9.2.5.drv' timed out after 3600 seconds of silence
build of /gnu/store/i7b6ffy3jp8adanvkj7zbv3mb5cdsxnq-ghc-9.2.5.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/i7/b6ffy3jp8adanvkj7zbv3mb5cdsxnq-ghc-9.2.5.drv.gz'.
guix build: error: build of `/gnu/store/i7b6ffy3jp8adanvkj7zbv3mb5cdsxnq-ghc-9.2.5.drv' failed

Somehow the sending of store items when offloading poses problems; I do not
understand where the problem lies. But the Guix Build Coordinator approach
of letting the compiling machine fetch the inputs from a substitute server
seems to be more robust. No idea what to do here!

Andreas