From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Boskovits?= Subject: A few thing we might consider hosting Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 17:28:51 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="94eb2c0551a4118baa055f5dfb35" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57956) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLAes-00050U-Sb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:28:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLAes-0007kG-1q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:28:54 -0500 Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]:42792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eLAer-0007iG-T8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 11:28:53 -0500 Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id p139so5703359itb.1 for ; Sat, 02 Dec 2017 08:28:53 -0800 (PST) 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: Guix-devel --94eb2c0551a4118baa055f5dfb35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sometimes while working in guix I run into problems because: 1. a tarball was removed or modified upstream It would be great to have the ability to install the latest release in all the supported ways on all supported architectures, and have the ability do guix pull without problems. Last time I tried that it did not worked, because one of the upstream linux-libre tarballs was removed. It would be nice if we could afford to host the sources, so that at lesat a bare-bones guixsd suffered no such problems. 2. some packages take very long time to build (notably guile) It would be nice, if we could provide the substitutes that the current core-updates gnu-build-system needs. That would make development that needs to be done on core-updates much more pleasant to those who are working in a restricted hardware environment. WDYT? --94eb2c0551a4118baa055f5dfb35 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Sometimes while working in guix I run into problems becaus= e:
1. a tarball was removed or modified upstream

It would be great to have the ability to install the latest release in a= ll the supported ways on all supported architectures, and have the ability = do guix pull without problems.
Last time I tried that it did not = worked, because one of the upstream linux-libre tarballs was removed. It wo= uld be nice if we could afford to host the sources, so that at lesat a bare= -bones guixsd suffered no such problems.

2. some p= ackages take very long time to build (notably guile)

It would be nice, if we could provide the substitutes that the current c= ore-updates gnu-build-system needs. That would make development that needs = to be done on core-updates much more pleasant to those who are working in a= restricted hardware environment.=C2=A0=C2=A0

WDYT= ?
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