From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Thompson Subject: Re: New x86 machine Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:35:23 -0400 Message-ID: <87fvgeiu1g.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: <1409265060.26560@bluehome.net> <8761hbe9bz.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNYWG-0001Hb-M8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:36:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNYW7-0003Lc-Uy for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:36:00 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog126.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.155]:45590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XNYW7-0003LC-NE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:35:51 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id m19so2348377oag.39 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2014 19:35:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8761hbe9bz.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , Jason Self Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > This is really appreciated and welcome in this time of rebuilds, thanks! > > Now the bottleneck has clearly become the front-end (at least in terms > of RAM, disk space, CPU.) I think we have to consider moving the > front-end elsewhere, possibly on this new machine or the one provided by > TUM. > > For that, we=E2=80=99ll need volunteers to help with: > > 1. general sysadmin work. > > 2. packaging of Hydra and its dependencies (Hydra is written in Perl > and depends on a number of Perl libraries.) > >From what I can tell, there is no official release tarball of Hydra. I guess we'd have to settle for packaging a snapshot of the git repo? When trying to build Hydra, I get the error "configure: error: nix-store is required". Do I need to have Nix installed, or is there a configure flag I can pass to use Guix? > For the brave hacker, there=E2=80=99s also this option: > > 2b. Write a Hydra replacement in Scheme, probably building upon > David=E2=80=99s neat guix-web. I wonder how difficult this would be. I haven't explored the full feature set of Hydra, but I bet we have all the building blocks that we need. It would be very interesting to explore this more. --=20 David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate