From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:22:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2k9g6ta.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878scaz0te.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:56:45 +0200")
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
>> “Something” needs to build the file-to-package database (which is what
>> you’re working on), and then there needs to be a way for users to fetch
>> that database. This is all orthogonal to substitutes, as I see it,
>> which is why I think we need to think about integrating it maybe with
>> ‘guix publish’ on the server side and (guix channels) on the client
>> side.
>
> If the database is filled on =guix build=, then the substitute server
> would automatically have a filesearch database.
>
> Question: How do I hook onto =guix build=?
You would need a build-completion hook in the daemon, which doesn’t
exist (yet!). Note also that at this level we only see derivations, not
packages.
>> Ah got it; having a database known to correspond to a specific commit is
>> even better.
>>
>> However, note that it could take time for the server to provide the
>> complete database for a commit (the time for as many packages as
>> possible to be built), so clients may want to refresh it anyway, or even
>> perhaps to use an older database.
>
> Indeed, and that's why I think we need to include a timestamp: if the
> client's database timestamp is older than that of the substitute server
> database, then we re-fetch it.
Yeah, maybe that can work.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-10 14:32 File search progress: database review and question on triggers Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-11 9:43 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-11 12:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-15 12:48 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-08-11 15:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-11 17:54 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-11 17:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-11 20:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-12 19:10 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-12 20:13 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-08-12 20:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-12 21:29 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-08-12 22:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-13 6:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 6:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 9:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-13 10:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-15 12:47 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-08-15 21:20 ` Bengt Richter
2020-08-16 8:18 ` Hartmut Goebel
2020-08-12 20:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 0:17 ` Arun Isaac
2020-08-13 6:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 9:40 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 10:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 11:47 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-13 13:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 12:20 ` Arun Isaac
2020-08-13 13:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 15:14 ` Arun Isaac
2020-08-13 15:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-13 15:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-15 19:33 ` Arun Isaac
2020-08-24 8:29 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-24 10:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-04 19:15 ` Arun Isaac
2020-09-05 7:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-06 9:25 ` Arun Isaac
2020-09-06 10:05 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-06 10:33 ` Arun Isaac
2020-08-18 14:58 ` File search progress: database review and question on triggers OFF TOPIC PRAISE Joshua Branson
2020-08-27 10:00 ` File search progress: database review and question on triggers zimoun
2020-08-27 11:15 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-08-27 12:56 ` zimoun
2020-08-27 13:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-26 14:04 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-09-26 14:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-05 12:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05 18:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-09 21:16 ` zimoun
2020-10-10 8:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-10 14:58 ` zimoun
2020-10-12 10:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 11:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-13 13:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 13:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-10 16:03 ` zimoun
2020-10-11 11:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-11 13:02 ` zimoun
2020-10-11 14:25 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-11 16:05 ` zimoun
2020-10-12 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-12 11:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-13 13:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-13 13:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-13 21:22 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-10-14 7:50 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-16 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-17 9:14 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-17 19:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-21 9:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-21 9:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-10-12 11:23 ` zimoun
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