Re: How to add a "manual" job

[Ludovic Courtès]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> skribis:

> I saw some projects have a "manual" job that builds their documentation.
> I tried to add one for Emacs:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hydra-recipes.git/commit/?id=4e17d34fadc9405551e551935ddb6068d913891d
>
> (I just tried to copy and adapt the syntax from existing examples,
> so I might well have got something wrong...)
>
> But it doesn't seem to have had any effect:
> http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/gnu/emacs-trunk#tabs-jobs

Turns out it’s slightly more complex.

emacs/release.nix starts with “import ../gnu-jobs.nix”, which is what
define the actual set of jobs.  So the ‘manual’ attribute you added is
just ignored.

Instead, I can think of two options:

  1. Add a ‘postDist’ in the ‘tarball’ job that installs the manual (see
     guile/release.nix for the details.)

  2. Add an extra ‘manual’ job like this:

       (import ../gnu-jobs.nix { ... }) // {
         manual =
           ...;
       })

HTH,
Ludo’.