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guix should not ask me to report a bug if it fails due to running out of memory

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Message #17 received at 72340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack <at> owlfolio.org>
To: "Simon Tournier" <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72340: guix should not ask me to report a bug if it fails due
 to running out of memory
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:23:16 -0400

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024, at 12:09 PM, Simon Tournier wrote:
>
> Well, this bug seems an instance of bug#47543 [1].

It is not.  This bug is "When guix runs out of memory, it prints an error
message that gives the user unhelpful advice."  That is not the same as
any particular reason why guix might run out of memory.

> “guix time-machine” runs “guix pull”, other said:
>
>      guix time-machine -q --commit=e4aabf42b33346849cb565199cfafc49d4f0aeff \
>        -- time-machine -q --commit=46a64c7fdd057283063aae6df058579bb07c4b6a \
>        -- describe
>
> is more or less equivalent to:
>
>     guix pull --commit=e4aabf42b33346849cb565199cfafc49d4f0aeff -p /tmp/host
>     /tmp/host/bin/guix pull --commit=46a64c7fdd057283063aae6df058579bb07c4b6a
>
> which minimicks what you ran.

Thanks for the explanation.

zw

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