Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > >>> What good is a substitute server if it doesn't hold the stuff I need >>> *now*? :) On the other side, it really makes me want to look at GNUnet, >>> which seems like the better long term solution. >> >> Though GNUnet doesn’t solve the fact that one needs a lot of CPU and >> storage to build and store all this. :-) > > FWIW I’m working on setting up a Guix+Cuirass build farm at the MDC, and > the goal is to eventually make it available to the public. Initially we > will restrict building to a subset that we use most often (all the > science stuff), but this will result in extra substitutes for packages > lower in the graph.
Excellent. If you’re using a GuixSD config like that of bayfront.guixsd.org, perhaps your experience will help us streamline that, such that we can eventually provide, say, a guix-build-farm service that does the right thing. > Ultimately, though, we ought to distribute the workload better, and > “guix publish” already helps with this. Agreed! Ludo’.
