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From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>, atai@atai.org
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix package build: can distcc be used?
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 17:12:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgavhcby.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6044245d-5533-4994-9316-d6a227e67e3d@disroot.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 25 Dec 2022 at 18:21, Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org> wrote:

> It's unknown whether implementing usage of distcc and enabling it in 
> `guix build` will affect bit-for-bit reproducibility of packages.

The question is how isolated the distributed computational environments
are.

> The distcc feature request and adding distcc to guix's dependency 
> closure and should be discussed further on guix-devel before implementing.

Personally, I am missing what distcc brings compared to the current
Guix offload mechanism.  Could you (distcc user) elaborate?


Cheers,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-06 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-25 10:21 guix package build: can distcc be used? Adam Faiz
2023-01-06 16:12 ` zimoun [this message]
2023-01-06 18:48   ` Vagrant Cascadian
2023-01-09 11:16     ` Simon Tournier
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-24  9:33 Andy Tai

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