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Subject: bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 23:40:18 +0200
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To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
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Hi Hartmut,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Also by chance ftp.gnu.org also provides a file `find.txt.gz`, listing
> all files, including the full path:
>
>     ./video/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-nq_600px_425kbit.ogv
>     ./old-gnu/g77/g77-0.5.21.tar.gz
>     ./old-gnu/guile
>     ./old-gnu/guile/guile-www-1.0.1.tar.gz
>     ./old-gnu/guile/guile-1.3.2.tar.gz

This one is nice and smaller than =E2=80=98ls-lR=E2=80=99.  I reimplemented=
 the GNU
updater in terms of this file, and kept the previous FTP-based updater
around for GNU packages not hosted on ftp.gnu.org:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D100b216d8a4218dae=
c4a79024d62d54b52dc07be

=E2=80=9Cguix refresh -t gnu=E2=80=9D is now much faster.

The next step may be to have a more-or-less generic updater based on
=E2=80=98ls-lR=E2=80=99 files.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.