Re: New North American based Guix Substitute Server, cuirass.genenetwork.org Now Available

["Collin J. Doering" <collin@rekahsoft.ca>]

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Hi Ludo,

Thanks! Following your advice, I have adjusted the system configuration to no longer use the default guix substitute servers[1] and deployed it to cuirass.genenetwork.org.

Kind regards,

PS: originally sent this only to Ludo due to an issue with my mail client.

Footnotes:
[1] https://git.rekahsoft.ca/rekahsoft/guix-north-america/commit/9e9816870a30d1345ae1120b5b8e8c77b17d34d4

On 11 Jul 2024 at 12:01, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi Collin,
>
> "Collin J. Doering" <collin@rekahsoft.ca> skribis:
>
>> I am excited to announce that Guix substitutes (for x86_64) are now available in North America, thanks to the generous contribution of server hardware and infrastructure from GeneNetwork.org.
>>
>> This new server enhances the availability and redundancy of Guix substitutes, ensuring a more robust and reliable experience for users in North America.
>>
>> We will be posting a detailed blog article about the setup of the build farm in the coming
>> weeks, but the Guix system configuration and notes about its setup can be found at
>> https://git.rekahsoft.ca/rekahsoft/guix-north-america/. Stay tuned for more information!
>
> Congrats!  I’m confident many in the Americas will find it useful.
>
> If I’m not mistaken, the machine is configured¹ to take substitutes from
> ci.guix and bordeaux.guix.  It would be interesting (but obviously more
> expensive CPU-wise…) to not do that as a way to get diverse builds that
> can be checked with ‘guix challenge’.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://git.rekahsoft.ca/rekahsoft/guix-north-america/src/branch/master/.guix/guix-na/config/balg02.scm

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