[Nix-dev] Multiple-output derivations on hydra

Vladimír Čunát vcunat at gmail.com
Mon May 20 21:14:15 CEST 2013


On 05/20/2013 07:59 PM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 17/05/13 09:23, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>
>> On 05/17/2013 11:36 AM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:
>>> I seem to have hit a serious problem (mesa on hydra). It builds fine,
>>> but somehow hydra is unable to get the result back. It failed for this
>>> reason on both two attempts for both two platforms (four times together).
>>>
>>> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/4971663
>>
>> Now I set preferLocalBuilds for mesa in an attempt to work around the problem.
>
> Please don't set this flag for builds on hydra.nixos.org.  It causes the build
> to be done on the already heavily loaded frontend :-)
>
> I'll try to fix the Nix bug this week.

This was only meant as a temporary workaround, so people could test more 
easily. The mesa build takes around 10 minutes on my older notebook, so 
I didn't think it was a big burden.

>> However, I'm getting an "evaluation error":

> These happen from time to time.  It should clear up the next time the jobset
> gets evaluated...

Yes, it cleared very quickly (within hours).


Vlada


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