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Re: Mirror of hydra.gnu.org
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Mirror of hydra.gnu.org |
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Tue, 1 Mar 2016 17:13:23 -0500 |
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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’.