guix-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: bug#36855: guix system switch-generation doesn't


From: Jakob L. Kreuze
Subject: Re: bug#36855: guix system switch-generation doesn't
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:08:19 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

Hi Mark,

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Jakob,
>
> address@hidden (Jakob L. Kreuze) writes:
>
>> Thanks for the input; I wasn't aware that the activation process was
>> taking so long for some people. One of Ludovic's suggestions was to
>> create a single derivation, rather than three, to speed up system
>> activation. I'll look into this further.
>
> To be clear, I don't care how long it takes to build these
> derivations. However, I think they should all be built before starting
> to activate the system. Does that make sense?

Yes, and I agree that it would be ideal to have the derivations built
prior to system activation -- that way, the activation scripts could be
included in 'show-what-to-build*'.

> On a side note, what would happen if one of those builds failed? Would
> the system activation be left half-done?

Yes. You raise another very good reason for why system activation should
be carried out by a single, atomic activation script :)

Regards,
Jakob

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: PGP signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]