Re: [core-updates] Setting SSL_CERT_FILE in the build environment

2024-07-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Zheng Junjie writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Zheng Junjie writes: >> >>> This patch should fix it. >> >> Thank you for the patch! >> >>> From f41bf905cfb1395a53cfc0d79315148ac9ba0a79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> Message-ID: >>> >>> From: Zheng Junjie >>> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:06:39

Re: Should we document how to detect if build machines are reachable before trying to offload?

2024-07-22 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Ludo, On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 14:56, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I guess this is probably what we should permit: building locally when we > cannot offload. > > Does that make sense? Yes! This feature seems wanted. ;-) Aside it would satisfy requests [1,2] randomly picked up :-) it would help in

Re: Question about changing versioning for TeX Live packages

2024-07-22 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 at 18:38, Nicolas Goaziou via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > I'm only changing the `version' field. For the record, "core-updates" > currently contains all TeX Live packages with their version switched to > "2024.2". Cool! Nice it’s

Re: Reducing "You found a bug" reports

2024-07-22 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 at 15:16, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> I’m fine removing the “report a bug” message, maybe replacing it with >>> some clearer diagnostic and suggestion? WDYT? >> >> Could we detect if it comes from networking? Somehow catch the error >> and run some code that checks stuff

Re: Reducing "You found a bug" reports

2024-07-22 Thread Suhail Singh
Simon Tournier writes: > More than often, the issue is transient, hard if not impossible to > reproduce and thus hard to analyze. Even, when it happens for me, > sometimes I say ok let try to collect some information for helping in > debugging that but then just running again “guix pull” makes i

Re: Reducing "You found a bug" reports

2024-07-22 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Just a quick side note that some members in our community (not I) are > offended by the word "bug" to describe software defects. welcome to the internet of billions of people, where the cost of expressing one's offence doesn't cost anything anymore, and there are dozens of offended people eve

Indication of build failure from substitute servers?

2024-07-22 Thread Jonathan Frederickson
Hi folks - I had a thought I wanted to bring up to you all. I frequently end up with Guix attempting to build packages on my lower-powered machines when there are no substitutes available. However, a common reason that substitutes aren't available for a package is that the package failed to buil