From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Support rsync to help Chinese users to setup mirrors Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 13:39:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87tvarx4w0.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87y30d2lxi.fsf@debian> <87zhktrmm6.fsf@elephly.net> <871ry4t3ya.fsf@debian> <87lfw5h4fu.fsf@debian> <87muglxvvv.fsf@elephly.net> <87h86sngnh.fsf@debian> 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]:46553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hvglv-0003eE-5L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:39:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hvglu-0006Jx-5q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:39:55 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h86sngnh.fsf@debian> 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.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Nala Ginrut Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Nala Ginrut writes: > How do you create this cache? Maybe we can just follow you in the same > way. We're not trying to fetch packages like regular Guix clients, we'd > like to provide a mirror/cache to help users to accelerate downloading > inside the firewall covered area. Guix clients fetch binaries in nar and narinfo format. Mirroring them might be sufficient. To create the cache requires running =E2=80=9Cguix publish=E2=80=9D with a /gnu/store, which cannot easily be mirrored as it n= eeds to be in sync with its database. --=20 Ricardo