all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
* bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels
@ 2021-09-15 17:30 EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
  2021-09-16  8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2021-09-15 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 50606

As I've described in [0], one can't have a Guix channel served over Git's
"Dumb HTTP" protocol.  That is caused by libgit's inability to do so [1].

Guix channel authors may want to serve channels:
- via "Dumb HTTP" Git repositories;
- via other DVCS like Mercurial, Fossil, BitKeeper;
- decoupled from the backing versioning tool.

My initial though is that making Guix knowing how to handle channels served as
tarballs would suffice, and cover all of the above.  Those channels wouldn't
have the exact same caching and authentication characteristics as channels
served via Git repositories, but that seems OK.

WDYT?

[0]: https://yhetil.org/guix-user/162732098483.1190082.2428052336447457010@localhost/t/#m8bb1fc83a8eccd9819085432a59bad9257ef434a
[1]: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/issues/4652#issuecomment-390903142




^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2021-09-18 10:09 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2021-09-15 17:30 bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-16  8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-16 11:18   ` zimoun
2021-09-16 17:41     ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-16 17:48       ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-16 17:51         ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-16 20:21       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-17 10:41         ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-17 10:46           ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-09-17 17:00             ` zimoun
2021-09-18 10:08               ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-16 23:44       ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-17  8:16       ` zimoun
2021-09-17 10:44         ` EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.