Re: Advice about GuixSD on Serveraptor?

[Leo Famulari]

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.