From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: Troubles with install image Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:34:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wqbf4cao.fsf@izanagi.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <53C4D7EA.40500@totakura.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X74kU-0005q8-OF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:34:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X74kP-0002fk-En for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:34:34 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog136.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.85]:50703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X74kP-0002f3-7z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:34:29 -0400 Received: by mail-pd0-f178.google.com with SMTP id w10so29354pde.37 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:34:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53C4D7EA.40500@totakura.in> 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: sreeharsha@totakura.in Cc: guix-devel On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: > On 07/15/2014 03:54 AM, David Thompson wrote: >> Since hydra seems to always be under a lot of stress, I wonder if I >> should set up another machine of mine to serve substitutes or even just >> offload builds so that my installation can complete. Is this relatively >> easy to set up? > > I once tried it on a Debian and it was not easy. Ludo advised to set it up > using Nix and from what I later found, it is easy to do it on Nix. Are you referring to offloading builds or using a replacement to hydra.gnu.org for serving substitutes? Offloading builds seems like a good enough solution for now, but I'm not sure if there is support for offloading i686 builds to an x86_64 machine. I want to have this up and running before the release. I'm so close, just need to get over this last (fingers crossed) hurdle.