Ludovic Courtès writes: > Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> skribis: > > [...] > >>>> This can be completely automated, so I don't think it has to be a lot of >>>> work: >>>> 1. guix package --export-source-tarballs=/var/www/public_html/ >>> >>> We could do this, but I figured we might as well let others do it. :-) >>> Currently we have tarballs.nixos.org, and I think there’ll be another >>> one pretty soon. Hopefully that’ll cover our needs. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> I'd say we should definitely do this. Making the Guix project >> self-contained will make it look more solid to people outside of the >> project. This is an issue we have solved half-way now.. We rely on >> infrastructure we cannot easily create with Guix only. > > What part of the infrastructure do you have in mind? It’s true that we > fetch sources from a wide range of places now.
In this case, just a "content-addressed mirror" (we don't have the ui to create it). So, we have the code in place to fetch from other content-addressed mirrors, but we don't have the code in place to create one. >> I think it's important that we can show that with GNU Guix, we've got >> everything covered, from source to binary, without relying on other >> projects (even though Nix is a friendly project :-)) >> >> It doesn't matter if we actually create a content-addressed mirror any >> time soon, what matters is that we provide the tools to do so easily. > > I agree. :-) A command to create a content-addressed cache along the > lines of tarballs.nixos.org would be welcome, indeed, and rather easy to > implement (we wouldn’t be able to generate the cache on the fly like > ‘guix publish’ does because the daemon does not store raw content > hashes; instead, it stores the hash of the nar of the contents, but > anyway a detail.) Could we create a mapping between the hash from the package recipe and the hash of the nar of the contents? Then this wouldn't be a problem. > FWIW I don’t have plans to work on it in the near future, so > contributions are welcome! ;-) It seems like a task I can work on. However, I am working on some other things that I would like to finish first. So if anyone else is interested in this.. :-) Kind regards, Roel Janssen
