[Nix-dev] Troubles with Hydra's failure cache

[Eelco Dolstra]

Michael Raskin wrote:

> Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> Yes, I can do that manually by logging in to the Hydra server and doing "rm
>> /nix/var/nix/db/failed/*", then restarting the build (that can actually be done
>> through the web interface).  That could be made a bit nicer: the restart button
>> in the web interface should get rid of the cached failures.
> 
> It would be nice to have, maybe, a tree in Nix repo where committers
> could commit set of jobs (+some metainformation for accountability?) and
> clean false failures.. 

Committing in the repository is not the right place to fix transient problems.
 It's better to add some more finetuned Hydra ACLs (e.g. the right to restart a
build) and create a Hydra accounts for people who want them.

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/