From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:03:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160719100331.GA32752@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160719062915.3cdpmb6xhcg3l6mw@venom>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 08:29:15AM +0200, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> I was thinking that we could (and should) add some optional support
> for metadata which could describe the origin of the package. It could
> contain:
> - Guix GIT revision used
> - differences against GIT revision
> - local package recipe
> - exported dependency tree of package recipes
> - optionally URL where missing dependencies can be found
The package would need to be signed and contain all its dependencies.
This is what guix archive does when you add some metadata.
The size of the package does not matter (much). If Docker can be
popular...
I agree it would be an idea to decouple from publish daemons in the
form of downloadable files. Nix had this feature - not sure it is still
there.
Pj.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-19 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 22:22 ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 6:29 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-19 10:03 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2016-07-19 13:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 13:42 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-19 14:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-19 15:50 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-20 11:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-20 13:05 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-20 13:12 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-20 16:10 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-21 5:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-21 15:58 ` Thompson, David
2016-07-21 5:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-07-21 20:50 ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-21 10:12 ` Andy Wingo
2016-07-21 12:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
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