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'max-silent-time' etc. should be per-derivation settings

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 29634 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29634: Hydra fails to honor 'max-silent-time' for early guile
 build
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:57:56 -0500

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> skribis:
>
>> An early 'guile' build on armhf-linux consistently fails on Hydra,
>> because the 'timeout' and 'max-silent-time' properties are not honored.
>> For example:
>>
>>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2391845
>>
>> This is a longstanding issue.  In past core-updates cycles, I have
>> worked around the problem by rebuilding these early 'guile' derivations
>> from Hydra's command line, passing --timeout and --max-silent-time
>> manually, and then restarting the many dependency failures.
>>
>> It would be good to fix this issue properly.
>>
>> My guess is that the build parameters are not honored because there is
>> no Hydra 'job' associated with this early 'guile'.
>
> Exactly.  Or maybe there’s one but this early ‘guile’ is built as a
> dependency of another job.

How do you think we should fix this?

      Mark

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