bug#29634: Hydra fails to honor 'max-silent-time' for early guile build

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> An early 'guile' build on armhf-linux consistently fails on Hydra,
> because the 'timeout' and 'max-silent-time' properties are not honored.
> For example:
>
>   https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2391845
>
> This is a longstanding issue.  In past core-updates cycles, I have
> worked around the problem by rebuilding these early 'guile' derivations
> from Hydra's command line, passing --timeout and --max-silent-time
> manually, and then restarting the many dependency failures.
>
> It would be good to fix this issue properly.
>
> My guess is that the build parameters are not honored because there is
> no Hydra 'job' associated with this early 'guile'.

Exactly.  Or maybe there’s one but this early ‘guile’ is built as a
dependency of another job.

Ludo’.