Re: core-updates-frozen: Planning for the last world rebuild

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hey Thiago,

> I was waiting for this world rebuild to happen to see the results in 
> Cuirass now that powerpc64le-linux builds are only done on guixp9, but in 
> hindsight it would have been better if I requested that those builds were 
> restarted instead. Restarting this build should remove the main roadblock 
> though:
>
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/703194/details

Now restarted!

>
> When that build is restarted and succeeds, does Cuirass also restart the 
> builds that failed because they depended on it, or do we need to explicitly 
> restart those as well?

Yes, on successful build completion Cuirass looks if some builds that
were marked as "failed-dependency" (failing because some of the
dependencies are also failing) can be resumed.

That being said, Cuirass is not performing nicely these days because of:
this issue https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48468.

Thanks,

Mathieu