Subject: Re: Guix QA: 13482 packages waiting for Hurd target to build for a package addition patch

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 07:50:14 +0100

Andy Tai <[email-masked]> writes:

> funny issue with Guix QA:
>
> https://qa.guix.gnu.org/issue/63184
>
> shows  13482 packages waiting to build for a package addition patch
> for target i586-gnu
> That shall make no sense.   The package is Linux kernel specific, as well.

This isn't a QA issue, it's an actual issue with the derivations,
they're very broken.

I've got some patches here https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63416

Note that even though this information is showing up, the i586-gnu
system isn't looked at when considering the "status" [2].

2: https://git.cbaines.net/guix/qa-frontpage/tree/guix-qa-frontpage/issue.scm#n50