Re: Not sure how to add an offload server

["Simen Endsjø" <contact@simendsjo.me>]

I don't understand how /etc/guix and /usr/local/etc/guix fits together.
/usr/local/etc/guix/acl does not contain the public key, but it exists and symlinks to a store item.

As guix offload looks at /usr/local/etc/guix/machines.scm, I manually added the machines.scm there, and `guix offload test /usr/local/etc/guix/machines.scm` fails with the missing public key.

$ ls -lah /usr/local/etc/guix
total 24K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Nov  6 22:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K May  1  2023 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   47 Nov  6 22:02 acl -> /gnu/store/y0xvx5900zxj4s7rwyfr3baazkkhzkbw-acl
-rw------- 1 root root  701 Nov  2 22:00 acl.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  342 Nov  2 22:48 machines.scm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  118 Oct 23  2023 signing-key.pub
-r-------- 1 root root  192 Oct 23  2023 signing-key.sec

/etc/guix on the other hand has an acl which is not symlinked, but is using the machines.scm from my system.
This acl contains the public key.
But `guix offload test /etc/guix/machines.scm` also fails on the missing public key.

$ sudo ls /etc/guix -lah
total 24K
dr-x--x--x 2 root root 4.0K Nov  6 22:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4.0K Nov  6 22:02 ..
-rw------- 1 root root  498 Jul 24  2023 acl
-rw------- 1 root root  182 Jul 21  2023 acl.backup
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   56 Jun 26 21:02 channels.scm -> /gnu/store/8nyjma3zafvhv4a31561n6ckhr9d3f90-channels.scm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   56 Nov  6 22:02 machines.scm -> /gnu/store/kj5lfjhxi81x7xp3nym3ssdyp2177waq-machines.scm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  118 Oct 14  2022 signing-key.pub
-r-------- 1 root root  192 Oct 14  2022 signing-key.sec

I really have no idea what is happening here, but I fail to see what I'm doing wrong.

Could someone link me to a working offload setup?

On Sun, Nov 3, 2024, at 16:05, Simen Endsjø wrote:
> Both computers use Guix System. Nothing in my configuration tweaks anything related to this.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2024, at 15:06, Tomas Volf wrote:
>> Simen Endsjø <contact@simendsjo.me> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi, I have some problems creating my own offload server.
>> >
>> > Adding a build-machine section in guix-configuration fills
>> > /etc/guix/machines.scm.
>> >
>> > But when I do `guix offload test` or status, it checks
>> > /usr/local/etc/guix/machines.scm and not /etc/guix/machinecs.scm.
>> 
>> This seems weird.  How did you install your Guix?
>> 
>> T.
>> 
>> -- 
>> There are only two hard things in Computer Science:
>> cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
>> 
>> 
>> *Attachments:*
>>  • signature.asc