Re: Debugging info unavailability

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> What good is a substitute server if it doesn't hold the stuff I need
>>> *now*? :) On the other side, it really makes me want to look at GNUnet,
>>> which seems like the better long term solution.
>>
>> Though GNUnet doesn’t solve the fact that one needs a lot of CPU and
>> storage to build and store all this.  :-)
>
> FWIW I’m working on setting up a Guix+Cuirass build farm at the MDC, and
> the goal is to eventually make it available to the public.  Initially we
> will restrict building to a subset that we use most often (all the
> science stuff), but this will result in extra substitutes for packages
> lower in the graph.

Excellent.  If you’re using a GuixSD config like that of
bayfront.guixsd.org, perhaps your experience will help us streamline
that, such that we can eventually provide, say, a guix-build-farm
service that does the right thing.

> Ultimately, though, we ought to distribute the workload better, and
> “guix publish” already helps with this.

Agreed!

Ludo’.