Re: Project direction with testing changes (branches and patches)

2021-08-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Chris, > I think trying to change up how branches (staging/core-updates) are > tested is a good place to start. The concrete change I'm proposing is to > use an instance of the Guix Data Service plus an instance of the Guix > Build Coordinator to do the testing and builds, rather than Cuir

Fwd: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade!

2021-08-09 Thread jbranso
So this email from the Hurd developers just came through about recent GNU/Hurd vunerabilities. :) Forwarded message --- From: "Samuel Thibault" To: debian-h...@lists.debian.org, hurd-...@gnu.org Sent: August 9, 2021 10:04 PM Subject: Hurd Security vulnerabilities, please upgrade! He

Re: Project direction with testing changes (branches and patches)

2021-08-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> So, I think I've recently switched to thinking about the problem as one >> of testing changes, rather than just testing patches. Since both patch >> series, and branches are used to propose changes, I think this makes >> sense. >> >> In

Re: #f as a package description, gnu: Add rocminfo.

2021-08-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Lars-Dominik Braun writes: > Hi Christopher, > >> Anyway, I wouldn't like for this change to lower the standard though, >> it's currently the only package in Guix with an invalid description (as >> far as I'm aware), is there some reason why it doesn't have one? > it simply fell through the crac

Substitute timeouts

2021-08-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, I have been investigating a problem that is visible both on the main guix publish server at https://ci.guix.gnu.org[1] and on the Cuirass build farm[2]. This error comes from the fact that the publish server does not accept the "guix substitute" connection requests within the %fetch-timeo

Re: #f as a package description, gnu: Add rocminfo.

2021-08-09 Thread Lars-Dominik Braun
Hi Christopher, > Anyway, I wouldn't like for this change to lower the standard though, > it's currently the only package in Guix with an invalid description (as > far as I'm aware), is there some reason why it doesn't have one? it simply fell through the cracks[1]. Commit 0a379de3249d5e9ff66fb404