From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger. Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 11:46:17 +0200 Message-ID: <8737p7bxg6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87lh3r61ab.fsf@gnu.org> <20160523015421.GA22738@jasmine> <20160523080851.GA23593@debian-netbook> <87eg8tw2hl.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1ocl9zc.fsf@gnu.org> <8737p8wgmk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54793) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b58uv-0005Lb-Cp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 05:46:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b58ur-0000vE-81 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2016 05:46:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8737p8wgmk.fsf@gnu.org> (Roel Janssen's message of "Tue, 24 May 2016 00:31:47 +0200") 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: Roel Janssen Cc: guix-devel Roel Janssen skribis: [...] >>> This can be completely automated, so I don't think it has to be a lot of >>> work: >>> 1. guix package --export-source-tarballs=3D/var/www/public_html/ >> >> We could do this, but I figured we might as well let others do it. :-) >> Currently we have tarballs.nixos.org, and I think there=E2=80=99ll be an= other >> one pretty soon. Hopefully that=E2=80=99ll cover our needs. >> >> Thoughts? > > I'd say we should definitely do this. Making the Guix project > self-contained will make it look more solid to people outside of the > project. This is an issue we have solved half-way now.. We rely on > infrastructure we cannot easily create with Guix only. What part of the infrastructure do you have in mind? It=E2=80=99s true tha= t we fetch sources from a wide range of places now. > I think it's important that we can show that with GNU Guix, we've got > everything covered, from source to binary, without relying on other > projects (even though Nix is a friendly project :-)) > > It doesn't matter if we actually create a content-addressed mirror any > time soon, what matters is that we provide the tools to do so easily. I agree. :-) A command to create a content-addressed cache along the lines of tarballs.nixos.org would be welcome, indeed, and rather easy to implement (we wouldn=E2=80=99t be able to generate the cache on the fly like =E2=80=98guix publish=E2=80=99 does because the daemon does not store raw c= ontent hashes; instead, it stores the hash of the nar of the contents, but anyway a detail.) FWIW I don=E2=80=99t have plans to work on it in the near future, so contributions are welcome! ;-) Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.