Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> While I've been working on the software side of building things for
> substitutes through the Guix Build Coordinator for over a year now [1],
> I've only been personally pushing to bring the benefits to Guix users by
> default for the last few weeks [2].
>
> 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00323.html
> 2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-05/msg00020.html
>
> The strategy that currently seems most feasible is to add an additional
> default source of substitutes: bordeaux.guix.gnu.org.
>
> I think things are pretty much ready, you can find some information at
> https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/ . If you're up for trying out fetching
> substitutes from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org, now is a good time to do so, and
> please report back in terms of how it's working out for you.

The patch to enable bordeaux.guix.gnu.org as a default substitute server
is available in [1].

1: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48435

I've created a wip-bordeaux branch [2] now which includes that patch,
plus a commit to update the guix package to build guix including it. I
think this will be helpful when testing the changes.

2: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-bordeaux

I've also drafted a blog post, which can be found here [3].

3: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/substitutes-from-bordeaux.guix.gnu.org.md

If I can find the time to test things this week, maybe the changes in
#48435 can be merged on Friday. If anyone is up for testing things, or
reading through the blog post, that would be great.

Thanks,

Chris