[Nix-dev] hydra admins: please take care of i686 GHC out of memory issues

Rob Vermaas rob.vermaas at gmail.com
Tue Jan 28 13:10:16 CET 2014


Hi,

I went for the option to delete the builds from the DB. So they should
show up at the next evaluation again.

Cheers,
Rob

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Gergely Risko <gergely at risko.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to make a change that only changes the libraries and
> other dependencies (e.g. git-annex)?  Because by changing GHC itself we
> would trigger (most probably another failing) GHC rebuild.
>
> Gergely
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 12:02:16 +0100, Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> that's a bit tricky, as the .drv's of the failed builds have been
>> garbage collected. We need to fix that in Hydra. For now, easiest
>> would be to add a change somewhere that'll trigger a rebuild of the
>> whole i686-linux ghc packages, or to physically delete these builds
>> from the hydra database and re-evaluate the jobsets. Not sure what is
>> best yet.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rob
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Gergely Risko <gergely at risko.hu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks, this looks great!
>>>
>>> But on the other hand now someone has to restart all the builds that
>>> failed because of ghc being unavailable previously, e.g.:
>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/haskellPackages_ghc763.ghc.i686-linux
>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/haskellPackages.pipesParse.i686-linux
>>>
>>> But there are thousands more. :(
>>>
>>> Gergely
>>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 10:42:01 +0100, Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> The build should be available on hydra.nixos.org now.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
>>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a successful GHC 7.6.3 build for i686-linux available here:
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://hydra.cryp.to/job/nixpkgs/haskell-updates/haskellPackages.ghcPlain.i686-linux
>>>>>
>>>>> If hydra.nixos.org cannot compile that package for some reason, could
>>>>> someone with appropriate admin privileges please import that closure
>>>>> from my server into the /nix store on hydra.nix.org? I believe
>>>>>
>>>>>   curl "http://hydra.cryp.to/build/37672/nix/closure/ghc-7.6.3.closure.gz" | gunzip | nix-store --import
>>>>>
>>>>> should do the trick.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rob, maybe?
>>>>>
>>>>> Take care,
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
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