Hi! David Craven <da...@craven.ch> skribis:
> This is one of the three improvements I was thinking about. I thought > I'd start with low hanging fruit. The other two are: > > 1. I'd like to use overlay fs (like docker) and create a new overlay > for each phase to easily revert a phase. That would be fun. I think it could/should be a separate tool. That is guix-daemon would continue to operate in its own way, but we’d have another tool that would do what you suggest. WDYT? That seems like quite a bit of work, though. > 2. I'd like logs for each phase to be put into separate files and > automatically written to disk inside the build directory. > * It's hard to find the logs of a particular phase. > * If build directory isn't kept then the logs are automatically deleted If you use Emacs, ‘guix-build-log-mode’ is awesome: it allows you to fold/unfold build phases, to jump from one build phase to the next, and does syntax highlighting: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Emacs-Build-Log.html Ludo’.
