From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mp0 ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by ms11 with LMTPS id 4I2jOXqL9V98SAAA0tVLHw (envelope-from ) for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:05:46 +0000 Received: from aspmx1.migadu.com ([2001:41d0:2:4a6f::]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by mp0 with LMTPS id 2JJuNXqL9V9JPQAA1q6Kng (envelope-from ) for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 10:05:46 +0000 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by aspmx1.migadu.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 74FF9940416 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 2021 10:05:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:46746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx5hJ-0007Yc-FM for larch@yhetil.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:05:45 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51970) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx5h4-0007Wj-MD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:05:30 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kx5h4-0004TS-03; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:05:30 -0500 Received: from [2a01:e0a:1d:7270:af76:b9b:ca24:c465] (port=41418 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kx5h0-0007wI-0J; Wed, 06 Jan 2021 05:05:27 -0500 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Mathieu Othacehe Subject: Re: Specify substitute url in GUI installer References: <867douchqa.fsf@163.com> <87a6tpdih2.fsf@gnu.org> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 17 =?utf-8?Q?Niv=C3=B4se?= an 229 de la =?utf-8?Q?R?= =?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2021 11:05:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87a6tpdih2.fsf@gnu.org> (Mathieu Othacehe's message of "Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:43:21 +0100") Message-ID: <87lfd6nzx7.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: guix-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Zhu Zihao Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -2.84 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=none; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=guix-devel-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 74FF9940416 X-Spam-Score: -2.84 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: p26eEUr751na Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> However, it's sad that there's no option for user to specify substitute >> url in GUI installer of Guix ISO. It means that people new to Guix still >> have to tolerate the slow connection during the installation. >> >> Can we add such option for GUI installer? > > Adding such an option shouldn't be too hard, as there's already the > possibility to add an HTTP mirror from the parameters menu. > > The problem is to authorize the substitute server. I don't think it's > reasonable to ask the user to enter the server public key manually. An > option would be to fetch the public key from > "https://the-substitute-sever/signing-key.pub", display it, and propose > the user to authorize or not this server. That looks reasonable to me. We should make sure most common use cases don=E2=80=99t end up going throug= h too many extra dialog boxes though. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.