[Nix-dev] Help needed: patching Hydra to retry failed builds after a while

[Gergely Risko]

Hi,

Ahh, thanks for the pointer, this was the missing part of the big
picture for me.  Then I'll look around a bit in Nix to see if my feature
request is easy to implement and try to create a pull request.

About the builds: actually it seems so that it is constantly failing,
and a simple restart will not be enough.  Someone has to increase the
memory (or swap) that is available to the build.

Thanks,
Gergely

On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:56:54 +0100, Rob Vermaas <rob.vermaas at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Hydra doesn't really deal with , it is just a nix (see 'man nix.conf')
> setting we use that caches the build failures:
>    build-cache-failure = true
>
> Perhaps you can create an issue in the nix issue tracker
> (https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues) requesting a feature that would
> implement what you are suggesting.
>
> In the meanwhile we can restart these builds.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob