From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: How to deal with very large sources Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 17:45:30 +0100 Message-ID: <874kwgvof0.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87sgk2dkuv.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87pnf5arh1.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37693) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iw7WC-0000RY-Kj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:45:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw7WB-0002Xq-JE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:45:44 -0500 Received: from sender4-of-o51.zoho.com ([136.143.188.51]:21154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iw7WB-0002Vo-7B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:45:43 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: zimoun Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org zimoun writes: > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 15:45, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> >> zimoun writes: >> >> > Well, the questions are: >> > - hash? >> > - a copy on Berlin as substitute? >> >> What are the questions exactly? I don't understand what you are asking. > > Considering "large" data, the questions are: > > How to compute the hash? > Does Berlin have a copy of large data set? We can mark packages as not substitutable, so the sources would be downloaded on the users=E2=80=99 machines. Whoever packages things would h= ave to compute the hash first, though. --=20 Ricardo