Re: Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

[Peng Mei Yu <pengmeiyu@riseup.net>]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès writes:

>> Then a mirror site can simply pull the directory
>> /var/cache/guix/publish/nar from the Berlin server and serve this
>> directory through a static HTTP server.  There will be cache misses.
>> But guix-daemon will safely fallback to the next server in
>> substitute-urls.
>
> The simplest solution for now (I think that’s what Ricardo & co. had in
> mind) would be for you to retrieve /var/cache/guix/publish on your
> server, as is, and then run ‘guix publish’ on your sever: it will know
> where to find files.  As I wrote to Jonathan, you can/should also run
> nginx on top of that as a proxy to your local ‘guix publish’.

I am afraid having to install Guix and run 'guix publish' will be a
major obstacle for most mirror sites, especially when their maintainers
have no previous experience with Guix and have no interest in learning a
new software and do not want to pollute their server with an unknown
software and do not want to increase maintenance burden. This is the
simplest solution on our side, but a complex solution on mirror site
maintainers' side.

I guess a complex Nginx URL rewrite rule might also convert the URL into
real filename in the cache.  Can anyone familiar with Nginx explain?


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Peng Mei Yu