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* Convert to DocBook 5.

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* Use Jing for RelaxNG validation, xmllint seems buggy.
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doc/manual/build-farm.xml
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<chapter id='chap-build-farm'><title>Setting up a Build Farm</title>
<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id='chap-build-farm'>
<title>Setting up a Build Farm</title>
<para>This chapter provides some sketchy information on how to set up
a Nix-based build farm. Nix is particularly suited as a basis for a
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<para>TODO</para>
<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk' />.</para>
<para>The sources of the Nix build farm are at <link
xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk'/>.</para>
</section>
<section id='sec-distributed-builds'><title>Setting up distributed builds</title>
<section xml:id='sec-distributed-builds'><title>Setting up 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
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linkend="envar-build-hook"><envar>NIX_BUILD_HOOK</envar>
variable</link>.</para>
<example id='ex-remote-systems'><title>Remote machine configuration:
<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
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</example>
<para>An example build hook can be found in the Nix build farm
sources: <ulink
url='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
sources: <link
xlink:href='https://svn.cs.uu.nl:12443/repos/trace/release/trunk/common/distributed/build-remote.pl'
/>. It should be suitable for most purposes, with maybe some minor
adjustments. It uses <command>ssh</command> and
<command>rsync</command> to copy the build inputs and outputs and