Re: Need to increase 20-hour build timeout for NSS on MIPS

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> So, we either need a way to set the timeout on a per-package basis, or
> we need to increase the default timeout in gnu-system.scm.  I still
> don't know how much to increase it, because in this case there were no
> other builds happening on the machine for much of the time, whereas
> typically there will be two builds assigned to each MIPS build slave.
>
> Suggestions?

What about using the ‘properties’ field of the package:

  (define-public nss
    (package
      ;; ...
      (properties `((timeout . ,(* 40 3600))))))

and then have gnu-system.scm honor it when present?

Thanks,
Ludo’.