channel-with-substitutes-available and broken revision

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Simon Tournier wrote on 23 May 2023 17:49
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Hi,

As documented by the manual [1], I have:

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(use-modules (guix ci))

(list (channel-with-substitutes-available
%default-guix-channel
"https://ci.guix.gnu.org"

Running “guix pull”, it picks e499cb2c12d7f1c6d2f004364c9cc7bdb7e38cd5
which is broken [2]. To be precise, this commit contains a cycle:
emacs-keycast lists emacs-keycast as propagated inputs; introduced by the
previous commit 87d5754107e2393cc5d2ab44cd9586b3bf73b011 [3].

This cycle leads to an exploding guix-package-cache.drv. It consumes
all the RAM.

What happens is that ’channel-with-substitutes-available’ checks the
latest success of the “guix” jobset [4]. And that passes [5], at least
for x86_64.

It passes because the Cuirass jobset does not build
guix-package-cache.drv. Otherwise it would probably fail; as it happens
on Bordeaux [2].

Well, I do not find where this jobset “guix” is defined but it appears
to me worth to add this guix-package-cache.drv derivation.


Cheers,
simon

PS: If one has enough RAM, one could read:

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GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 1073741824):
May lead to memory leak and poor performance
-8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And note that if one has more RAM, then this guix-package-cache.drv can
even be built. Maybe a bug on Guile side, another story.
?