From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zimoun Subject: Re: Package file indexing Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 13:24:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20190314204941.GA21065@jasmine.lan> <87mulx9kuv.fsf@nckx> <87zhpx846u.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87bm21y2s2.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <87imw7cpe7.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87pnqdhkpf.fsf@gnu.org> <87imlt3hr2.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <87png11xgi.fsf@cbaines.net> <87tv5cpypp.fsf@gnu.org> <874kx4anch.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ipWru-0002Jc-OQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:24:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ipWrt-00016Z-PM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2020 07:24:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <874kx4anch.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: Guix Devel On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 12:20, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > =E2=80=A6 I agree. I think file search has to be a service providing a= ccess to > > a fast database. > > Good point. Let's go in that direction then. But it should be possible to build this database locally without using any network connection. Something like: "guix search --build-database" and also "guix pull --build-search-db". And using an external database fetched from ci.guix.gnu.org or data.guix.gnu.org should work as the substitutes do. All the best, simon