retitle 67042 ecl-cl-pcg fails to build due to a flaky test quit Hi Guillaume,
Guillaume Le Vaillant <g...@posteo.net> writes: > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> Hi, >> >> guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: >> >>> glv pushed a commit to branch master >>> in repository guix. >>> >>> commit 42bec70a91d2205371c96287bcf565dcc5f5dd74 >>> Author: Andre A. Gomes <andremegaf...@gmail.com> >>> AuthorDate: Thu Nov 2 11:19:41 2023 +0200 >>> >>> gnu: cl-slynk: Update to 1.0.43-9.9c43bf6. >>> >>> * gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm (sbcl-slynk): Update to 1.0.43-9.9c43bf6. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Guillaume Le Vaillant <g...@posteo.net> >>> Change-Id: I84ff141b7eefff470f72493d02f2cc24f02db7cf >> >> This commit or some preceding cl-* ones broke ecl-seedable-rng, >> according to notifications from the CI: >> >> ecl-seedable-rng.x86_64-linux on master is broken >> >> Potentially related failures: >> >> - sbcl-cl-freetype2 (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/2584694/details) >> - ecl-origin (https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/2580823/details) >> >> See: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/2585168/details > > Hi. > > Locally I can build sbcl-cl-freetype2 and ecl-origin without issue. > > Concerning ecl-seedable-rng, there's something funny going on. The build > details on the CI list only 1 dependency (ecl-ironclad), but there > should be 3; ecl-cl-pcg and ecl-golden-utils are missing. And it is in > fact the ecl-cl-pcg dependency that fails to build (because of a test). > However, neither ecl-cl-pcg nor its dependencies have been updated > recently, so why did the CI need to rebuild it, and why did it start > failing? Tests can sometimes be flaky (fail non-deterministically). The best course of action in these situations is to 1. report the problem upstream and 2. disable the test in our packaging. Re-titling accordingly. Cuirass mixing up derivations is tracked in bug #65505. -- Thanks, Maxim
