Re: Does Guix publish work with mDNS?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:

> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> By "Guix publish works over mDNS," I mean that if I publish substitutes
>> on one machine in my network, then other machines on my network will
>> discover the publishing endpoint via mDNS and use it transparently like
>> any other substitute server (assuming that my network is configured to
>> allow mDNS to operate normally).
>>
>> Perhaps I only dreamed it?
>
> I'm afraid it was only a dream.  I've seen Ludo speculate this
> possibility a couple of times, but AFAIK it is still not implemented.

Indeed, it’s pure speculation at this point.  :-)

I wrote about it here:

  
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2017/reproducible-builds-a-status-update/

That said, it Wouldn’t be Hard™ to support it, via Guile-Avahi or
something.

Ludo’.