Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space> writes: > I think you were referring to "substitute servers" as both "build farms" and > "mirrors" so I'll be more explicit here. I have expressed my opinion on > "build > farms" above, and I think there's more need for a direction on "mirrors".
Yes I will update the GCD. The GCD is only about mirrors. > Regarding mirrors, I think the best option is to add guix into existing public > mirrors, since they have more resource and experience in operating mirrors. > Popular public mirrors may also have downstreams, improving the coverage > further. Agreed. > Below are existing attempts I can find: > > <snip> > > nar-herder can address the performance issue for reverse proxy, but most > public > mirrors may just reject the special setup. Unless we're going to host all the > mirrors by ourselves, we need to have a goal on supporting rsync mirroring > without extra setup. > > I'm going to patch guix publish specially for the build farm I run, btw, as a > temporary solution. I'll announce it on the list when things are settled. There's two issues: making it easier for users to set up and use mirrors, and making it easier to host the mirrors. I am not familiar with the mirror hosting/rsync/nar side. If the updated GCD is approved, I can write a patch to add an installer option to pick a mirror, for the bash script installer on foreign distros and the Guix system installer. The latter would need to configure the substitute-urls of guix-service-type. I don't know how to configure it on a foreign distro though. > Also there can be another question, since we have two independent build > farms, I > don't see a reason to mirror both if not using our infrastructure, then which > one should be mirrored? No idea. Probably ci.guix.gnu.org?
