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-<part xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      version="5.0"
-      xml:id='chap-distributed-builds'>
-
-<title>Distributed Builds</title>
-
-<partintro>
-<para>Nix supports distributed builds, where a local Nix installation can
-forward Nix builds to other machines over the network.  This allows
-multiple builds to be performed in parallel (thus improving
-performance) and allows Nix to perform multi-platform builds in a
-semi-transparent way.  For instance, if you perform a build for a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> on an <literal>i686-linux</literal>
-machine, Nix can automatically forward the build to a
-<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> machine, if available.</para>
-</partintro>
-
-<xi:include href="enabling-builds.xml" />
-
-</part>
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-<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      version="5.0"
-      xml:id="ch-enabling-builds">
-
-<title>Enabling Distributed Builds</title>
-
-<para>You can enable distributed builds by setting the environment
-variable <envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to point to a program that Nix
-will call whenever it wants to build a derivation.  The build hook
-(typically a shell or Perl script) can decline the build, in which Nix
-will perform it in the usual way if possible, or it can accept it, in
-which case it is responsible for somehow getting the inputs of the
-build to another machine, doing the build there, and getting the
-results back.  The details of the build hook protocol are described in
-the documentation of the <link
-linkend="envar-build-hook"><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar>
-variable</link>.</para>
-
-<example xml:id='ex-remote-systems'><title>Remote machine configuration:
-<filename>remote-systems.conf</filename></title>
-<programlisting>
-nix@mcflurry.labs.cs.uu.nl  powerpc-darwin  /home/nix/.ssh/id_quarterpounder_auto  2
-nix@scratchy.labs.cs.uu.nl  i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        8 1 kvm
-nix@itchy.labs.cs.uu.nl     i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        8 2
-nix@poochie.labs.cs.uu.nl   i686-linux      /home/nix/.ssh/id_scratchy_auto        8 2 kvm perf
-</programlisting>
-</example>
-
-<para>Nix ships with a build hook that should be suitable for most
-purposes.  It uses <command>ssh</command> and
-<command>nix-copy-closure</command> to copy the build inputs and
-outputs and perform the remote build.  To use it, you should set
-<envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar> to
-<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/libexec/nix/build-remote.pl</filename>.
-You should also define a list of available build machines and point
-the environment variable <envar>NIX_REMOTE_SYSTEMS</envar> to it.  An
-example configuration is shown in <xref linkend='ex-remote-systems'
-/>.  Each line in the file specifies a machine, with the following
-bits of information:
-
-<orderedlist>
-  
-  <listitem><para>The name of the remote machine, with optionally the
-  user under which the remote build should be performed.  This is
-  actually passed as an argument to <command>ssh</command>, so it can
-  be an alias defined in your
-  <filename>~/.ssh/config</filename>.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>A comma-separated list of Nix platform type
-  identifiers, such as <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>.  It is
-  possible for a machine to support multiple platform types, e.g.,
-  <literal>i686-linux,x86_64-linux</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>The SSH private key to be used to log in to the
-  remote machine.  Since builds should be non-interactive, this key
-  should not have a passphrase!</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>The maximum number of builds that
-  <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will execute in parallel on the
-  machine.  Typically this should be equal to the number of CPU cores.
-  For instance, the machine <literal>itchy</literal> in the example
-  will execute up to 8 builds in parallel.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>The “speed factor”, indicating the relative speed of
-  the machine.  If there are multiple machines of the right type, Nix
-  will prefer the fastest, taking load into account.</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>supported
-  features</emphasis>.  If a derivation has the
-  <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute, then
-  <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will only perform the
-  derivation on a machine that has the specified features.  For
-  instance, the attribute
-  
-<programlisting>
-requiredSystemFeatures = [ "kvm" ];  
-</programlisting>
-
-  will cause the build to be performed on a machine that has the
-  <literal>kvm</literal> feature (i.e., <literal>scratchy</literal> in
-  the example above).</para></listitem>
-
-  <listitem><para>A comma-separated list of <emphasis>mandatory
-  features</emphasis>.  A machine will only be used to build a
-  derivation if all of the machine’s mandatory features appear in the
-  derivation’s <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> attribute.
-  Thus, in the example, the machine <literal>poochie</literal> will
-  only do derivations that have
-  <varname>requiredSystemFeatures</varname> set to <literal>["kvm"
-  "perf"]</literal> or <literal>["perf"]</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
-</orderedlist>
-
-You should also set up the environment variable
-<envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar> to point at a directory (e.g.,
-<filename>/var/run/nix/current-load</filename>) that
-<filename>build-remote.pl</filename> uses to remember how many builds
-it is currently executing remotely.  It doesn't look at the actual
-load on the remote machine, so if you have multiple instances of Nix
-running, they should use the same <envar>NIX_CURRENT_LOAD</envar>
-file.  Maybe in the future <filename>build-remote.pl</filename> will
-look at the actual remote load.</para>
-
-</chapter>
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