Re: Guix on aarch64

[Mark H Weaver]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 09:57:49AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> I can remove one of the build machines from Berlin.
>
> would this not aggravate the problem with the availability of substitutes?
> As I understand it, then we would have two separate machines, each of
> which would build the same packages; and if two machines are not enough
> to keep up with the pace of development, with only one things should become
> even worse. So if we move machines, maybe we should move both of them for a
> little while, until the proposed changes to cuirass and the berlin storage
> architecture are implemented?

I agree.  I think it would be very bad to split the two machines up.  It
would effectively halve the already unsufficient build capacity on that
architecture.  I'd rather keep them both on Berlin than to split them
up.

      Mark