Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:36:08AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 01:20:53PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> >> It's not a bad idea to build it on Hydra. Hydra already builds a
>> >> usb-image / disk-image job [0], so we could add a qemu-image job, too.
>> >
>> > Actually, we used to build a qemu-image on Hydra, but we removed because
>> > it was troublesome and unused.
>> >
>> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=a3a27745013f3e5a287de3bf0187b2f72beb6965
>> >
>> > Maybe we should try again :)
>> 
>> Yup, we could reinstate it if needed.  That said, we wouldn’t too many
>> downloads from hydra.gnu.org…
>
> If we took that route, I'd point the Serveraptor admin to the Hydra link
> and ask them to download it once themselves, rather than having each
> client download it.
>
> But, making a qemu-image at each evaluation is not so good for
> general distribution, because we won't have tested it as thoroughly as
> the release image. We'd want the qemu-image to build only if all the
> system tests passed.

Yeah I think recent Hydra can present a release page if and only if some
other derivations also succeeded with the same commit.

Anyway, let us know what you think is the right approach for now!

Thanks,
Ludo’.