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[PATCH] Parallelize `guix package`

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>

Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:19:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>

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From: Brett Gilio <brettg <at> posteo.net>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 38649 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#38649] [PATCH] Parallelize `guix package`
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 14:20:40 +0000 (UTC)


Dec 17, 2019 8:19:14 AM Leo Prikler :

> Hi Guix!
>
> Yesterday I had an interesting conversation on IRC about the behaviour
> of multiple `guix package` processes running in parallel.
> Specifically, when two transactions target the same profile (usually
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/guix-profile) at the same time, one
> of them will fail to claim the lock and abort. 0001 makes it so that
> the process waits for the lock. 0002 makes it so that packages
> specified via -i can be built in parallel.
>
> Regards,
> Leo
>

Can we extend this to include things like environment --ad-hoc?
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