GNU bug report logs - #35108
ungoogled-chromium fails to install

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Blackbeard <barbanegra <at> posteo.mx>

Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 19:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 35108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jeff Bauer <jbauer <at> rubic.com>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 35108 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35108: ungoogled-chromium fails to install
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 12:31:37 -0500

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:52:14PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> The problem with Ungoogled-Chromium is that it (at some point) uses
> 6-8GiB of memory *per core* during the build.
>
> It would be great to codify this constraint in the package definition,
> but I can't think of an easy way short of parsing /proc/meminfo.
>
> For now we can disable parallel building, which will arguably provide
> a better user experience than thrashing and crashing systems...
>
> Thoughts?

Interesting.  If I ran the following command, the installation
might succeed?

  guix package -i ungoogled-chromium --cores=1

-Jeff
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