Ludovic Courtès writes:

> Hello,
>
> James Richardson <[email protected]> skribis:
>
>> I am trying to setup an offload daemon.
>>
>> I have everything setup correctly (I think ;)
>>
>> $ guix offload test completes successfully.
>>
>> The offload daemon is actually guix on a foreign distro (Debian sid in
>> this case).
>>
>> Neither guix running on top of a Debian (sid and jessie) nor guixsd seem
>> to even call out to the offload daemon. All boxen are 64.
>>
>> My /etc/guix/machines.scm is here
>>
>> (list (build-machine
>>        (name "thor.lab01.jamestechnotes.com")
>>        (system "x86_64-linux")
>>        (host-key "ssh-ed25519 
>> AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIJf0ezYgeVFit40VJwaBEW1dGm2Xz+SHzVmib8IbN58y 
>> root@thor")
>>        (user "guix")
>>        (speed 1.)
>>        (private-key
>>      (string-append (getenv "HOME")
>>                     "/.ssh/identity-for-guix"))))
>>
>> Is x86_64-linux the proper system type?
>
> Yes.
>
> There are several things to consider here.  By default, guix-daemon
> creates a single job, so that single job will end up being built
> locally, unless you spawn, say, two “guix build” commands in parallel
> (the number of jobs is per client.)
>
> Running “guix-daemon --max-jobs=0” should force all builds to be
> offloaded:
>
>   
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix_002ddaemon.html
>
> I *think* “guix build --max-jobs=0” should give the same result.
>
> Alternately, if you run “guix build --max-jobs=2”, presumably half of
> the builds will be offloaded.
>
> Let us know if that works for you.
>
> Ludo’.

I have a permission problem somewhere, I think. If I run as root offload
works, otherwise it doesn't. Don't really know here to look from here.

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