bug#53533: [DISCUSSION] Quality of services in reproducible build environment Guix

Hi, On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 at 03:53, Leo Famulari wrote: > It's not easy to make sure that all packages build successfully. I've > never seen 100% of packages build successfully since I joined Guix in > 2015. It's a nice goal but it requires some work... a lot more work. I think this goal is impos

bug#53554: linux-libre 5.16 doesn't work with our default-initrd-modules

As described in the patch ticket for linux-libre 5.16 [0], this kernel series doesn't work by default on Guix System. To paraphrase my request for help from that ticket: When I test this package with `guix system vm --no-grafts doc/os-config-bare-bones.texi`, Guix fails to build the VM with this

bug#53511: guix pull command fails

After debugging this a bit deeper, I see that libgit2.so.1.1.0 is generating the error message "error inflating zlib stream". Which leads me to suspect that the reason I can't "guix pull" is related to guile-git. I've already reinstalled guix and the error persists. Is there a way to update gu

bug#53559: Mutter test-suite is flaky

Hi Guix, ever since the merge of core-updates-frozen, I've been unable to build mutter locally, while fetching it from CI is usually fine. Attached is a build log -- note, that the traceback is generated by me killing the process with a SIGSEGV, it would otherwise go on for several days. Cheers

bug#48007: computing derivations through inferior takes twice as long

Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > When INFERIOR is set to “y”, each package specification will be > looked up in the current Guix via an inferior. For any other > values of INFERIOR the specifications are resolved with the > current Guix (the very same Guix) directly. > > Here are the timings: >

bug#48007: computing derivations through inferior takes twice as long

Ludovic Courtès writes: > The trick is to ensure the inferior maintains its object cache across > calls. The patch needs to be cleaned up because it peeks into > internals, but we should be able to do something along these lines and > optimize a couple of other things. Yeah, this makes sense.

bug#53325: povray: Fails to build (_Pragma errors)

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer (2022-01-17 20:58:40 +0100) wrote: > Hi! When trying to upgrade package `povray 3.7.0.8` from Guix commit > `404f6953` to that of commit `4a943cfd`, the build fails showing errors like > these: […] I found what looks like the same issue reported in