Fwd: Re: New North American based Guix Substitute Server, cuirass.genenetwork.org Now Available

[Collin J. Doering]

Didn't send this to the mailing list by accident. Forwarding for reference.

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From: "Collin J. Doering" <collin@rekahsoft.ca>
To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Subject: Re: New North American based Guix Substitute Server,
 cuirass.genenetwork.org Now Available
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:55:09 -0500

Hi Vagrant,

Firstly, thanks for reaching out!

> The last evaluation that actually seems to have succeeded was from late
> August:
>
>   https://cuirass.genenetwork.org/eval/154706
>
> All the evaluations since then have failed, up until around
> mid-september...

I am aware of the evaluation failures, but haven't got around to resolving it. 
However, your email was the push I needed (thank you!), and I have now opened 
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/74203. TLDR: builds started failing due to a 
coreutils test that occasionally can fail on systems using btrfs. I hope to get 
this resolved ASAP so newer evaluations and substitutes can be built.

> I was pretty thrilled to use it while it was working... especially as it
> provided another reference point to check reproducible builds of guix!

That's great to hear! We're excited about it too!

> I imagine running a whole build farm would be pretty intensive resource.
> Soooo... I am curious what the current prospects are of getting it
> running again? :)

Yes, definitely not a cheap endeavor. I'm very gracious for the folks at 
University of Tennessee for their support (and patience as I get this resolved).

Please keep an eye on the issue I opened up, as once resolved, I should be able 
to get builds running again on cuirass.genenetwork.org.

Thanks again for reaching out, and excited to hear you've been getting value 
out of cuirass.genenetwork.org (at least, while it was building)!

On 03 Nov 2024 at 20:43, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> On 2024-07-06, Collin J. Doering wrote:
>> I am excited to announce that Guix substitutes (for x86_64) are now
>> available in North America, thanks to the generous contribution of
>> server hardware and infrastructure from GeneNetwork.org.
>
> The last evaluation that actually seems to have succeeded was from late
> August:
>
>   https://cuirass.genenetwork.org/eval/154706
>
> All the evaluations since then have failed, up until around
> mid-september...
>
> I was pretty thrilled to use it while it was working... especially as it
> provided another reference point to check reproducible builds of guix!
>
> I imagine running a whole build farm would be pretty intensive resource.
> Soooo... I am curious what the current prospects are of getting it
> running again? :)
>
>
> live well,
>   vagrant

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Collin J. Doering

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