Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> Also by chance ftp.gnu.org also provides a file `find.txt.gz`, listing > all files, including the full path: > > ./video/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-nq_600px_425kbit.ogv > ./old-gnu/g77/g77-0.5.21.tar.gz > ./old-gnu/guile > ./old-gnu/guile/guile-www-1.0.1.tar.gz > ./old-gnu/guile/guile-1.3.2.tar.gz This one is nice and smaller than ‘ls-lR’. I reimplemented the GNU updater in terms of this file, and kept the previous FTP-based updater around for GNU packages not hosted on ftp.gnu.org: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=100b216d8a4218daec4a79024d62d54b52dc07be “guix refresh -t gnu” is now much faster. The next step may be to have a more-or-less generic updater based on ‘ls-lR’ files. Thanks, Ludo’.
