| 29 Jun 2025 |
 Tom Westerhout | Following up on ners's point, there's this comment in release-haskell.nix: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/dcc4da22e1bf5ed04220e7c5ddaa80abc0dee646/pkgs/top-level/release-haskell.nix#L409
# pkgsMusl is compiled natively with musl. It is not
# cross-compiled (unlike pkgsStatic). We can only
# natively bootstrap GHC with musl on x86_64-linux because
# upstream doesn't provide a musl bindist for aarch64.
I'm wondering if it still stands because I was able to build stuff locally
| 16:27:44 |
| Tom Westerhout | Ah wait, never mind. I can't read. I was reading pkgsMusl instead of pkgsStatic. For pkgsStatic, it says "times out on Hydra" | 16:29:21 |
| Tom Westerhout | * Ah wait, never mind. I can't read. I was reading pkgsMusl instead of pkgsStatic. For pkgsStatic, it says "times out on Hydra". Is there any chance to get an exception there? | 16:29:49 |
 Alex | In reply to @ners:nixos.dev
Would it be possible to cache the pkgsStatic GHC for aarch64 as well, in addition to x86_64 linux? My guess, without looking at Hydra, is that it could potentially break the path size limit. | 17:17:56 |
 Peter Becich | this fixes it, rebuilding the tool as you suggested, review please: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/421127 | 21:58:21 |
| 30 Jun 2025 |
 ners | maralorn any thoughts? | 09:51:30 |
 maralorn | I am sadly quite unfamiliar with the policys around hydra timeouts. I guess there have to exist exceptions for something like chromium? But I think in Haskell world we never had one? | 10:06:57 |
| maralorn | * I am sadly quite unfamiliar with the policies around hydra timeouts. I guess there have to exist exceptions for something like chromium? But I think in Haskell world we never had one? | 10:07:10 |
| 1 Jul 2025 |
 sterni (he/him) | ners: in principle the timeout is configurable per derivation. That comment is from 2021, though, so it may no longer be accurate for the builders we currently have. Currently, it doesn't make a difference since haskell-updates is not tested on aarch64-linux at all. I don't know when/if that is going to change. Also, haskell-updates is relatively disconnected from master these days, so you will get cache misses even on x86_64-linux (haskell-updates is for catching regressions primarily, not populating the binary cache). Feel free to open a PR adding jobs for pkgsStatic haskell to release.nix or maybe release-cross.nix which are intended for testing/populating binary cache on master. | 09:54:04 |
| sterni (he/him) | going to merge h-u this evening probably | 16:01:25 |
