Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add 'guix publish' command

[David Thompson]

David Thompson <address@hidden> writes:

> This patch set has been a long time coming.  Thanks to Ludo for helping
> me solve the last blocking issue this morning.
>
> This new utility allows anyone to publish their /gnu/store directory
> over HTTP, exposing a Hydra-compatible API.
>
> To use it, simply run `guix publish` on one of your machines, then tell
> your other machines to use that one to fetch substitutes:
>
>     guix archive --authorize < your-server-key.pub
>     guix-daemon --substitute-urls=your-server:8080

Oh, I forgot to mention a limitation: 'guix publish' currently does not
use compress archives, so it uses a lot more bandwidth than Hydra does
currently.  In the future, it will be changed to use bz2 compression
like Hydra.

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