From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 22629@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22629: Towards a new 'guix pull'
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb5vsffd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Hello!
Here’s a series of improvements that I think we should make in ‘guix
pull’:
• Use Git instead of downloading a whole snapshot every time. The Git
checkout would be kept in ~/.cache/guix/pull/checkouts, say.
A related question is whether to use Git itself, which is pretty big
per ‘guix size’, or to use some libgit2 bindings such as
<https://git.dthompson.us/guile-git.git> (the closure of libgit2 is
435 MiB; that of Git is 761 MiB.)
• Build & install not only Scheme code, but also locales and the Info
manual.
• Have a “channel” mechanism, similar to ‘nix-channel’, that would
allow users to have several Guix variants available in parallel
instead of just “latest”. Could work like this:
guix channel add latest git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git master
guix channel add stable git://git.sv.gnu.org/guix.git stable
guix channel pull latest
guix channel set latest
# here i see the latest versions of everything
guix channel set stable
# and here everything is old but super stable ;-)
All 3 items can be done separately, I think.
Any takers? :-)
Ludo’.
PS: I do not mention the issue of authenticating code here, which is
obviously very important and deserves to be treated separately.
Related to that is the question of making sure that what you think
is the latest version really is the latest version. We need someone
to sign certificates saying what the latest commit ID of a repo is.
See the “The Update Framework” paper!
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2016-02-11 10:35 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-02-22 7:57 ` bug#22629: Towards a new 'guix pull' Pjotr Prins
2017-02-24 18:21 ` Leo Famulari
2018-04-08 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-04-08 17:45 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-31 14:43 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull' produces a self-contained Guix Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 14:43 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 1/4] self: Produce a complete package with the 'guix' command Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 14:43 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 2/4] pull: Install the new Guix in a profile Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 14:43 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 3/4] self: Compute and use locale data Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 14:43 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 4/4] self: Build the Info manual Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 14:53 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull' produces a self-contained Guix Thompson, David
2018-06-01 12:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-03 13:08 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-06-03 20:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-04 19:12 ` Pjotr Prins
2018-05-31 18:00 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-06-04 11:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-05 11:45 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-06-06 13:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-06 15:54 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-06-06 20:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-05-31 18:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-01 12:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-05 16:47 ` Fis Trivial
2018-06-06 13:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-06 20:58 ` Fis Trivial
2018-06-09 10:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-15 20:39 ` bug#28471: guix pull doesn't update the user manual Maxim Cournoyer
[not found] ` <handler.28471.D22629.152853885816765.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2018-06-13 21:46 ` bug#22629: bug#28471: closed (Re: bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull' produces a self-contained Guix) Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-19 4:45 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull' produces a self-contained Guix Chris Marusich
2018-07-19 12:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-28 15:16 ` bug#22629: Channels! Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-28 15:17 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 1/3] discovery: Add 'scheme-modules*' Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-28 15:17 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 2/3] Add (guix describe) and use it to initialize '%package-search-path' Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-28 15:17 ` bug#22629: [PATCH 3/3] DRAFT Add (guix channels) and use it in (guix scripts pull) Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-28 17:24 ` bug#22629: Channels! Pjotr Prins
2018-08-28 19:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-08-28 21:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-29 4:09 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-29 14:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-29 15:30 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-29 20:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-29 9:29 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2018-08-29 17:14 ` bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!) Mark H Weaver
2018-08-29 18:26 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 5:57 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-30 6:42 ` bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch Mark H Weaver
2018-08-30 10:10 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-30 12:18 ` bug#22629: “Stable” branch Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 14:10 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2018-08-30 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-31 9:39 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-31 9:58 ` bug#26608: " Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-31 10:33 ` bug#32022: " Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-31 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-31 11:24 ` bug#26608: " Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-08-31 11:45 ` bug#32022: " Ricardo Wurmus
2018-09-03 14:10 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2018-09-03 19:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-04 8:02 ` bug#26608: " Alex Sassmannshausen
2018-09-04 12:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-03 20:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-08-20 11:09 ` bug#26608: " zimoun
2018-08-30 14:46 ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-29 21:02 ` bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 21:29 ` bug#22629: Channels! Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 21:31 ` bug#22629: [PATCH v2 1/3] discovery: Add 'scheme-modules*' Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-30 21:31 ` bug#22629: [PATCH v2 2/3] Add (guix describe) and use it to initialize '%package-search-path' Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-31 12:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-31 13:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-31 14:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-08-30 21:31 ` bug#22629: [PATCH v2 3/3] Add (guix channels) and use it in (guix scripts pull) Ludovic Courtès
2018-09-02 15:11 ` bug#22629: Channels! Ludovic Courtès
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