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* Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer
@ 2021-03-07  2:46 raid5atemyhomework
  2021-03-09  2:34 ` raid5atemyhomework
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 28+ messages in thread
From: raid5atemyhomework @ 2021-03-07  2:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel@gnu.org

Hi Guix Developers,

I want to add a page to the installer to allow selection of substitute mirrors.  In particular, from my ISP, the SJTU mirror is significantly faster (1MB/s->5MB/s) than directly from `ci.guix.gnu.org` (4kB/s->40kB/s), so I think putting that option to the installer would be beneficial to others in similar circumstances.

However, the current `(gnu installer services)` assumes that snippets are added to a list of services. To implement substitute mirrors, I need to insert a `modify-services` form with a `(guix-service-type config => (guix-configuration (inherit config) (substitute-urls <whatever>))`.


What I want to propose is something like this:

* Add a `snippet-type` field to `<system-service>`, default `'service-list`.
  * The field can instead be set to `'modify-services` to mean that the snippet is to be in a `modify-services` form.
* In `system-services->configuration`, filter services according to `snippet-type` and put the snippets in the appropriate parts of the `service` form.
* Add entries for the SJTU mirror (with fallback to the original `ci.guix.gnu.org`) and the default unmirrored `ci.guix.gnu.org`, with `system-service-type` of `'substitute-urls`.
* Then in `(gnu installer newt services)`, add a page for `'substitute-urls`.

What do you think?

Thanks
raid5atemyhomework


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2021-05-31 10:04                   ` Maxime Devos
2021-06-01  6:39                     ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-06-01  8:30               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2021-06-02 14:44                 ` raid5atemyhomework
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2021-07-23 15:10                     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-07-23 15:21                       ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-08-01  9:42                         ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-08-01 12:28                         ` Christopher Baines
2021-12-01  6:11                           ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-12-01  8:16                             ` zimoun
2021-12-01 22:49                               ` raid5atemyhomework
2021-12-02  9:36                                 ` zimoun
2021-12-02 10:20                                   ` Jonathan Brielmaier

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