From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 43637-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43637] [PATCH] gnu: packages: Add grokmirror.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:14:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo0eexbn.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wo0fdjtn.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Hi,
>
> Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/version-control.scm (grokmirror): New variable.
>
> Applied, thanks!
Thanks for reviewing/applying!
>> A recent message on bug-guix [1] mentioned cloning the archives at
>> <https://yhetil.org>. public-inbox archives, including those at
>> yhetil.org, publish a grokmirror-compatible manifest. So, if you're
>> interested in mirroring the Guix-related archives at yhetil.org for any
>> reason [2], you can use grokmirror to do so in a way that's nicer than
>> periodically hitting yhetil.org with a git-fetch call for each
>> Guix-related inbox.
>
> So yhetil.org stores mailing list archives as a Git repo?
>
> Sounds interesting.
Yep, messages are stored in a Git repo or, for archives greater than
around one gigabyte, a collection of repos [*]. (A freshly gc'd
guix-devel weighs in at ~140M.)
[*] documentation on public-inbox's v2 format:
https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox-v2-format.html
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2020-09-26 20:48 [bug#43637] [PATCH] gnu: packages: Add grokmirror Kyle Meyer
2020-09-26 20:58 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-09-27 20:51 ` bug#43637: " Ludovic Courtès
2020-09-27 21:14 ` Kyle Meyer [this message]
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