bug#28159: Updater needs to support HTTP(S) servers

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> This one is nice and smaller than ‘ls-lR’.  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=100b216d8a4218daec4a79024d62d54b52dc07be
>
> “guix refresh -t gnu” is now much faster.

Commit c1d8b3b3b5af8282328b87dd7a8d09357cbb0af7 rewrites the GNOME
updater in terms of the ‘cache.json’ files that can be found in each
package directory at <https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources>.

Ludo’.