Hello Guix!
As you may know, there are currently two different Disarchive databases:
the one at that Timothy Sample set up a
few years back, and the one at that we
set up later, with a continuous integration job to populate it¹.
The database at ngyro.com has more historical metadata (metadata about
tarballs that older Guix revisions referred to) because Timothy worked
hard to populate it with tarballs from all the packages Guix refers to
starting from 1.0—which is crucial for long-term reproducibility.
Thanks to Timothy, I have now copied over things from
disarchive.ngyro.com to disarchive.guix.gnu.org. The stats are as
follows:
disarchive.ngyro.com had 28,396 entries
12,905 (45%) entries were missing from disarchive.guix.gnu.org
15,491 (the rest: 55%) entries were present in both yet different.
3,444 entries of disarchive.guix were missing from disarchive.ngyro²
I copied over the 12K entries that were missing from
disarchive.guix.gnu.org. (Note that there are currently only two copies
of the database: one at/in [bB]erlin, and one at/in [Bb]ordeaux.)
disarchive.guix.gnu.org now weighs in at 1.8 GiB for 31,839 entries.
For the remaining entries, it’s trickier. Sometimes it’s just the
gzip compression parameters that differ, which could be addressed with a
little bit more work:
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$ file ffdc77f5e5cb2390b9309de63eb7be68d9fe631e898f4da6c04a8159daefc2c0.gz ../../disarchive/sha256/ffdc77f5e5cb2390b9309de63eb7be68d9fe631e898f4da6c04a8159daefc2c0.gz
ffdc77f5e5cb2390b9309de63eb7be68d9fe631e898f4da6c04a8159daefc2c0.gz: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 446731
../../disarchive/sha256/ffdc77f5e5cb2390b9309de63eb7be68d9fe631e898f4da6c04a8159daefc2c0.gz: gzip compressed data, max speed, from Unix, original size modulo 2^32 446731
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Sometimes it’s trickier: