Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> writes: > * I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also > supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default > there is no timeout". This seems to be incorrect.
I proceeded to try explicitly passing --timeout=0 to 'guix build', but that didn't work: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- mhw@jojen:~/guix$ guix build -c1 --timeout=0 texlive substitute-binary: updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'... The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv @ build-started /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv - i686-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/an//8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv.bz2 building of `/gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv' timed out after 3600 seconds of silence @ build-failed /gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv - timeout guix build: error: build failed: build of `/gnu/store/an8an36igcaasvg72kcjph7ns7ssgy6d-texlive-2014.drv' failed --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I seem to be stuck now, with no way to update my system :-( Mark
