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

[Mark H Weaver]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

How do you think we should fix this?

      Mark