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Re: Content-addressed mirrors for tarballs
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Content-addressed mirrors for tarballs |
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Mon, 16 May 2016 14:27:54 +0200 |
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"Thompson, David" <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hello Guix!
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>> Commit cd436bf05a8344acf4462f3602e7d360821a902a allows source tarballs
>> to be fetched from content-addressed mirrors, such as tarballs.nixos.org
>> (I expect other mirrors will be added soon.)
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>> By default, URLs of the style http://tarballs.nixos.org/sha256/XYZ are
>> automatically appended to the list of URLs that’s explicitly specified.
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> This is a really cool feature!
It would be nice to have ‘guix publish’ publish such URLs, but there’s
currently no RPC to query a store item by hash.
Alternately, we could have a tool that produces the files to be
published statically (by traversing the package DAG and collecting
‘origin’s, for instance.)
Ludo’.