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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39575: guix time-machine fails when a tarball was modified
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 22:34:13 +0100
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To: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes:

[...]

>> The problem here is really that we fall back to content-addressed
>> mirrors instead of using them directly:
>>
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28659
>
> Wait, what happened here; you finally proposed a patch two years ago and
> nothing happened/we all forgot to follow up?

I think we forgot, indeed.

One thing I don=E2=80=99t quite like about the patch is the fact that =E2=
=80=98guix
substitutes=E2=80=99 connects to the daemon in =E2=80=98content-addressed-i=
tem?=E2=80=99.

Also, one could argue that we=E2=80=99d steer users towards downloading fro=
m our
server, which could be a privacy concern (probably not a strong argument
since one can easily change the substitute URLs.)

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.