9p (with caching enabled) is much faster than CIFS and doesn't require
Samba or virtual networking. For instance, building GNU Hello with
CIFS takes ~323s on my laptop, but with 9p it takes 54s.
More measurements will be needed to see if "cache=fscache" is really
faster than "cache=loose" (the former seems to be a little bit
faster).
image, otherwise the post-installs script of the "passwd" package
will fail because /etc/login.defs is missing. This also fixes the
Ubuntu 8.10 image generation, woohoo!
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=14217
image (i.e., it can contain any OS that obeys the interface
documented in the comment). See `testFreeBSD' for an example that
performs a build of the ATerm library on FreeBSD 7.0. This will be
used in the build farm to perform builds for platforms for which we
cannot synthesize VM images automatically.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=11753
