Ad-hoc offloading to a server

2021-09-20 Thread Christine Lemmer-Webber
Sometimes I've wanted to offload builds ad-hoc to another server, like so: guix build mypackage --offload-to=cweb...@beefybuilder.org This would offload by ssh'ing into that server and doing the offloading there, but it's a more explicit user specified location. Thoughts? Would this be a wort

Re: Ad-hoc offloading to a server

2021-09-20 Thread 'e...@beaver-labs.com'
The way I'd do it for now would be: ssh cweb...@beefybuilder.org guix build mypackage ssh cweb...@beefybuilder.org guix publish ssh -N -R 8081:localhost:8080 cweb...@beefybuilder.org& guix build --substitute-urls=http://localhost:8081 mypackage First, and only once, you need to authorize your mac

Re: building but skipping tests?

2021-09-20 Thread Joshua Branson
Andy Tai writes: > Hi, if I try to install a package and that may trigger building a > number of dependencies (when no substitutes for some reason but that > is outside the concern of this question), I notice that since the > build processes would run the tests by default, that takes a lot of > t