Re: Guix Day: Notes from the CI session

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:

>> I think the status quo of 64-bit ARM for us is untenable. The emulated
>> builds cause mass failures that can't be reproduced on real hardware.
>> There is a growing demand for this platform among hobbyists and hackers
>> who we could convert to Guix contributors!
>
> Following discussions that happened on Monday, I limited the number of
> Berlin workers emulating aarch64 builds by half (see
> abfb17bfec0ba41399fb60e91aa0e98087fab469 on maintenance).
>
> I also raised the number of Cuirass remote workers by machines to four
> (see a5df328e5c833ca2d28105280484626bf4c1adb1 on maintenance).
>
> Thanks to Ricardo support I was able to setup a Wireguard tunnel between
> berlin and the overdrive1. It seems to work pretty well and
> https://ci.guix.gnu.org/workers shows that it is building some packages.
>
> I plan to connect the remaining overdrive machines, 2 at Tobias and 1 at
> Andreas places. If this model of connecting build nodes through VPN
> works sustainably, connecting more ARM workstations hosted at individual
> could be a way to proceed.

Yay, thanks Ricardo & people at the MDC, and thank you!

In machines-for-berlin.scm, there’s also a couple of ARMv7 SBCs that,
while slow (no argument here), are helpful.  Do you think these could be
re-connected as well?

Thanks,
Ludo’.