From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Docker and singularity containers Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:43:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87in3ak3w1.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20180912151616.iwt3kqb77zd76wf6@thebird.nl> <878t4662lw.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]:44803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g09BQ-0001Pl-UB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:44:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g09BN-0002WH-ES for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:44:08 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21123) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g09BN-0002Vx-35 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:44:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <878t4662lw.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" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > A while back we fantasized about the possibility of having a web service > that would produce =E2=80=9Cpacks=E2=80=9D of Guix packages on demand. T= hat may allow > us to be #1 on HN for a couple of hours ;-), but it would also be quite > resource-hungry (and the service itself needs to be written to begin > with.) Such a service would have to use its own resources IMO, not > those of the build farm, which is already busy enough. My research group was interested in a service just like that, actually. After having connected the external storage directly to the berlin.guixsd.org we have a new server that could be used solely for this purpose. But even this may not be enough for an on-demand service. It might, however, be enough for a service that regularly builds packs for certain common environments from packages the build farm has already built. (This would be done with the squashfs backend, which is way faster than the Docker backend.) -- Ricardo