Re: New x86 machine

2014-08-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
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

Re: New x86 machine

2014-08-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
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

Re: New x86 machine

2014-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
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

Re: New x86 machine

2014-08-29 Thread David Thompson
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

New x86 machine

2014-08-28 Thread Jason Self
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