Re: guix package build: can distcc be used?

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>]

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On 2023-01-06, zimoun wrote:
> 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?

I believe distcc would allow sending the workload of individual parts of
a single package to multiple machines, so a bit finer grained than guix
offload, which can only send a single package (or more accurately,
derivation?) to each of the offloading machines, if I understand
correctly.


live well,
  vagrant

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