Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Chris, > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> Previously download-nar worked with gzipped nars and queried >> berlin.guix.gnu.org (also known as ci.guix.gnu.org). ci.guix.gnu.org no longer >> serves gzipped nars so this is of limited use. >> >> This commit changes download-nar to query both the default substitute servers, >> and queries for lzipped rather than gzipped nars, since those are available >> from both. >> >> * guix/build/download-nar.scm (urls-for-item): Return urls for lzip rather >> than gzip compression, and from both default substitute servers. The comment >> about CDN's is no longer relevant. >> (restore-gzipped-nar): Rename to restore-lzipped-nar and reimplement >> accordingly. >> (download-nar): Add progress reporting and switch to use lzip rather than >> gzip. >> * guix/cvs-download.scm (cvs-fetch): Replace guile-zlib with guile-lzlib. >> * guix/git-download.scm (git-fetch): Replace guile-zlib with guile-lzlib. >> * guix/hg-download.scm (hg-fetch): Replace guile-zlib with guile-lzlib. >> * guix/android-repo-download.scm (android-repo-fetch): Add guile-lzlib for >> download-nar > > LGTM! Great :) I pushed this to master yesterday as b59f89cf18fbad9ee95521c4cadc6642c580feb8. > As a second step, we could add support for zstd/gzip (via > guile-{zlib,zstd}) since that comes almost for free due to the fact that > the interface is the same in all three compression libraries. That will > make it more future-proof. Indeed, that should be easier now.