Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes:
> Hello all, > > let me start with a call for help! I realise that it takes me about one > week and something close to 100GB on my poor 2-core laptop to rebuild > the bulk of core-updates up to the packages in my profile, and that is not > sustainable. It also forces me to do a "guix gc" between two runs, with > the danger of either doing it too late and having to restart the builds > (lived experience, one week lost), or losing and having to recompile > store items that effectively have not changed. Some things that may help that I use: - Offloading - Btrfs file system with zstd compression (to make that 100 GiB appear as 50 GiB or less on your drive) [...] > Since the bootstrapping seems to have stabilised, that would allow more > people to work on packages closer to the leaves, since most of what > currently builds would be available as substitutes from the build farm > without everybody needing to go through a one-week compilation project. > > Here is my eclectic selection of packages I would add to the job: > - guix (builds) > - icecat (builds) > - ungoogled-chromium (probably also builds) > - openjdk (pulls in rust!, and builds) > - unison (pulls in ocaml, and builds) > - calibre (pulls in qt@5 and python; the former builds, the latter still > has some problems, among which the python bindings to qt, and packages > failing their tests even when updating to the latest release) > - pandoc (pulls in ghc, which currently fails its tests @9.2.5) > Please suggest more leaf packages that exercise your favourite missing > language or application domain! That looks promising. Should we spun a differently named branch to avoid people sending core-updates change? This was discussed in the past and agreed to (main branches do not *freeze* themselves), instead we use git to branch to our will. We could perhaps then add a 'core-updates-fixes-only' branch to the CI, in which we'd try to restrict core changes as much as possible, keeping the rebuild stress low for Berlin. How does that sound? -- Thanks, Maxim
