bug#51376: closed ([PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: mariadb: Don’t run tests in parallel on ppc64le targets.)

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Don’t run tests in parallel on ppc64le targets.
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> [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: mariadb: Don’t run tests in parallel on ppc64le targets.
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> Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:00:30 -0300
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> * gnu/packages/databases.scm (mariadb)[arguments]: Add ‘#:parallel-tests?’.
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> Hello,
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> This patch together with the glib one from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51165
> allows me to successfully run `guix pull` on powerpc64le-linux.
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> It doesn’t change the package derivation on non-ppc64le targets.
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> Thanks,
> Thiago.
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>  gnu/packages/databases.scm | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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> diff --git a/gnu/packages/databases.scm b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> index daa47e7c59fb..74ad72a9b20a 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/databases.scm
> @@ -831,6 +831,10 @@ Language.")
>                          "/share/mysql/support-files")
>           "-DINSTALL_MYSQLSHAREDIR=share/mysql"
>           "-DINSTALL_SHAREDIR=share")
> +       ;; The testsuite has spurious failures (mostly timeouts) if run in
> +       ;; parallel on Guix CI’s ppc64le VM. It appears that the I/O load is
> +       ;; too high for it to handle.
> +       #:parallel-tests? ,(not (target-ppc64le?))
>         #:phases
>         (modify-phases %standard-phases
>           (add-after 'unpack 'adjust-output-references
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: [bug#51376] [PATCH core-updates-frozen] gnu: mariadb: Don’t run tests in parallel on ppc64le targets. Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:12:43 +0300

On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 12:00:30PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann via 
Guix-patches via wrote:
> * gnu/packages/databases.scm (mariadb)[arguments]: Add ‘#:parallel-tests?’.
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> Hello,
> 
> This patch together with the glib one from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51165
> allows me to successfully run `guix pull` on powerpc64le-linux.
> 
> It doesn’t change the package derivation on non-ppc64le targets.
> 
> Thanks,
> Thiago.

I ran into similar issues on some of my other machines too, I'll see if
this helps with them too.

Patch pushed!

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