Re: New x86 machine
Hi Sergio, Sergio Durigan Junior sergi...@sergiodj.net skribis: On Friday, August 29 2014, Ludovic Courtès wrote: For that, we’ll need volunteers to help with: 1. general sysadmin work. Hey Ludo :-). I can help with this if needed. That would be appreciated! The first thing to do would be to subscribe to guix-sysadmin. Then we really need to streamline sysadmins work so we can efficiently share work, have clear procedures, etc. For instance, we should agree on who can access the slaves (currently it depends on the machine), how to avoid stepping on each other’s toes when doing something on the front-end, things like that. There’s a lot of room for improvement here, and I think it’s about time to do something about it. :-) So if you or anyone else has experience with this, or ideas on how to best organize, I’m all ears. Ludo’.
Re: New x86 machine
David Thompson dthomps...@worcester.edu skribis: From what I can tell, there is no official release tarball of Hydra. I guess we'd have to settle for packaging a snapshot of the git repo? Yes. When trying to build Hydra, I get the error configure: error: nix-store is required. Do I need to have Nix installed, or is there a configure flag I can pass to use Guix? Hydra requires Nix for its command-line interface and for its Perl bindings. But it uses only the low-level stuff (essentially what the (guix store) module provides), which is compatible between Nix and Guix. For the brave hacker, there’s also this option: 2b. Write a Hydra replacement in Scheme, probably building upon David’s neat guix-web. I wonder how difficult this would be. I haven't explored the full feature set of Hydra, but I bet we have all the building blocks that we need. It would be very interesting to explore this more. I think we’d rather think in terms of the features we need. The 3-process architecture described at http://hydra.nixos.org/job/hydra/trunk/tarball/latest/download-by-type/doc/manual under “Getting Started” should be mostly appropriate, I think. Thanks, Ludo’.
Re: New x86 machine
This is really appreciated and welcome in this time of rebuilds, thanks! Now the bottleneck has clearly become the front-end (at least in terms of RAM, disk space, CPU.) I think we have to consider moving the front-end elsewhere, possibly on this new machine or the one provided by TUM. For that, we’ll need volunteers to help with: 1. general sysadmin work. 2. packaging of Hydra and its dependencies (Hydra is written in Perl and depends on a number of Perl libraries.) For the brave hacker, there’s also this option: 2b. Write a Hydra replacement in Scheme, probably building upon David’s neat guix-web. Volunteers are eligible for a beverage offered by me. :-) Ludo’.
Re: New x86 machine
Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org writes: This is really appreciated and welcome in this time of rebuilds, thanks! Now the bottleneck has clearly become the front-end (at least in terms of RAM, disk space, CPU.) I think we have to consider moving the front-end elsewhere, possibly on this new machine or the one provided by TUM. For that, we’ll need volunteers to help with: 1. general sysadmin work. 2. packaging of Hydra and its dependencies (Hydra is written in Perl and depends on a number of Perl libraries.) From what I can tell, there is no official release tarball of Hydra. I guess we'd have to settle for packaging a snapshot of the git repo? When trying to build Hydra, I get the error configure: error: nix-store is required. Do I need to have Nix installed, or is there a configure flag I can pass to use Guix? For the brave hacker, there’s also this option: 2b. Write a Hydra replacement in Scheme, probably building upon David’s neat guix-web. I wonder how difficult this would be. I haven't explored the full feature set of Hydra, but I bet we have all the building blocks that we need. It would be very interesting to explore this more. -- David Thompson Web Developer - Free Software Foundation - http://fsf.org GPG Key: 0FF1D807 Support the FSF: https://fsf.org/donate
New x86 machine
Hello, There's a new x86-64 machine on the block (soon to be) building things. Guix has been installed on it and hopefully its fast CPU, 16GB of RAM and 2TB of storage will be pressed into service soon to help with the upcoming giant rebuilds. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
