Pulling texlive

[mgttlinger]

If you try to pull a container image with texlive.combined.scheme-full you get a status 500 from nixery after a while. I suppose this is due to the size of the full texlive with some kind of timeout given that e.g. scheme-medium works as expected.

[tazjin]

Hey! Thanks for reporting this.

On the backend side, this seems to be the related error:

{
    "cmd": "shell/texlive.combined.scheme-full",
    "eventTime": "2020-03-03T14:24:32.791053488Z",
    "message": "[nix] building of '/nix/store/yb3np3i058s19nwnx3r05bp58hz4ia7y-texlive-combined-full-2019.drv' timed out after 60 seconds",
    "image": "nixery-prepare-image",
    "serviceContext": {
        "version": "rsfq1y5knnd3n467gmw0yfnc707qnj53",
        "service": "nixery"
    }
}

Looking through the logs it seems that texlive.combined.scheme-full is not cached in the binary cache for the current commit Nixery uses, so it's attempting to build that derivation which doesn't fit into the 60s window. Will update the commit and see what happens.

[tazjin]

I'm testing this at 43ab8e86ca633cd144a5a79767fcc00f305f6ef0 and there's several thousand derivations that need to be built which aren't in the cache for this set of packages. I'm not sure why this is the case, maybe Hydra doesn't evaluate this attribute for some reason 🤔

[tazjin]

FWIW the instance with that commit is running at 37-dot-nixery.appspot.com, I'm gonna look into this more later.

[mgttlinger]

Thanks for looking into this!