Subject: Re: [bug#68677] [PATCH 0/6] Service for "virtual build machines"

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:25:22 +0100

Simon Tournier <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Yes, controlling CPU model and Linux kernel are worth:
>
>  + CPU model because we already have examples of failures (Python 3.7
>    packaged in Guix v1.0.0, some BLAS libraries, etc.);

Yes!  And I think we should maintain a catalog of these problems (build
processes influenced by date, hardware, or kernel version).

Our horizon should be to somehow ensure such packages are always built
in the right environment, automatically, whether or not it involves
using a VM.

Ludo’.