Re: Mirror of hydra.gnu.org

[Leo Famulari]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:46:02PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Evening!
> 
> There’s now a mirror of the substitutes from hydra.gnu.org available at
> <http://mirror.guixsd.org> (basically running nginx as a caching proxy.)
> To use it, simply pass:
> 
>   --substitute-urls=http://mirror.guixsd.org

Awesome, I think this is making a big difference! Thanks to however is
providing the resouces for this!

> 
> This is strictly a mirror so no new signing key needs to be authorized.
> 
> This is somewhat experimental, but hopefully it will provide better
> bandwidth than our poor hydra.gnu.org (and until we receive the
> replacement machine.)  Keep in mind that this is a cache: on a cache
> miss, performance will be just as bad as with hydra.gnu.org, no wonder.
> 
> If this works sufficiently well, I propose to change
> ‘%default-substitute-urls’ to:
> 
>   '("http://mirror.guixsd.org"; "http://hydra.gnu.org";)
> 
> Let us know how well it works for you!
> 
> Ludo’.