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Unverified Commit 31b940ee authored by Mathieu Othacehe's avatar Mathieu Othacehe
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Update documentation.

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......@@ -355,7 +355,17 @@ mechanism described below should be preferred.
This mode is harder to setup but scales way better. This is the build
mode that is used on the GNU Guix build farm at
@url{https://ci.guix.gnu.org}.
@url{https://ci.guix.gnu.org}. The build jobs are not submitted to
the local Guix daemon. Instead, a remote server dispatches build
requests to the connect remote workers, according to the build
priorities.
The remote server and the connected workers communicate using ZMQ over
TCP. The workers are able to discover the remote server using Avahi.
The built items are exchanged as substitutes (@pxref{Substitutes,
Substitutes,, guix, Guix}) by spawning Guix publish servers both on
the remote server and on each connected remote worker.
It can be enabled this way:
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