Re: [Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

2015-11-04 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Eelco, > Regarding hydra.nixos.org disk space, I hope to address this by > having hydra-queue-runner store build results directly in an S3 > bucket (i.e.cache.nixos.org), rather than in the local Nix store. yes, that sounds like a good solution. It would be great to have that feature

Re: [Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

2015-11-04 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi Peter, On 04/11/15 14:52, Peter Simons wrote: > > Packages would appear in cache.nixos.org as soon as they have been > > built, rather than when the channel mirror script runs. > > Do you have any idea how to deal with the fact that some jobsets aren't > necessarily supposed to be

Re: [Nix-dev] Set up a Sufficiently Powerful Build Farm

2015-11-04 Thread Eelco Dolstra
Hi, On 04/11/15 17:28, Peter Simons wrote: > Eelco Dolstra writes: > > > Just to be clear: you mean it compresses *to* 8%, or *by* 8%? > > By 8%. "To" would be nice, though, wouldn't it? :-) Hm, that's surprisingly low. (OTOH, compressing *to* 8% would be surprisingly high...) For comparison,