From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sree Harsha Totakura Subject: Re: Troubles with install image Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:38 +0200 Message-ID: <53C4D7EA.40500@totakura.in> References: <87wqbf4cao.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Reply-To: sreeharsha@totakura.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45145) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6x9O-0003yC-Lq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:27:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6x9I-0005uW-Hg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:27:46 -0400 Received: from mail-out1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.0.8]:50926 helo=smtp1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X6x9I-0005uM-Bg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:27:40 -0400 Received: (Authenticated sender: totakura) by mail.in.tum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8743F240309 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <87wqbf4cao.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org On 07/15/2014 03:54 AM, David Thompson wrote: > Since hydra seems to always be under a lot of stress, I wonder if I > should set up another machine of mine to serve substitutes or even just > offload builds so that my installation can complete. Is this relatively > easy to set up? I once tried it on a Debian and it was not easy. Ludo advised to set it up using Nix and from what I later found, it is easy to do it on Nix. Sree