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bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:21:40 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
EuAndreh <eu@euandre.org> skribis:
> My proposal was a little more crude: get the channel code from a tarball. In
> this model there are no authentications with fingerprint or signed commits,
> neither "guix pull" would know much about the before/after state of a channel
> besides comparing the checksum of the whole tarball.
>
> This lower level abstraction is much less sofisticated, and would probably
> mean
> refetching and rebuilding from tarball-backed channels than Git channels. But
> this also means that the requirement is lower, and much more universal: a
> tarball file served over HTTP, compared to a specific Git HTTP protocol.
Note that we already have -L and GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as an alternative to
full-blown channels. I’d recommend using that when in need of a
lightweight alternative. How does that sound?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, EuAndreh, 2021/09/15
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/09/16
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, zimoun, 2021/09/16
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, EuAndreh, 2021/09/17
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, EuAndreh, 2021/09/17
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, zimoun, 2021/09/17
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/09/18
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, Leo Famulari, 2021/09/16
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, zimoun, 2021/09/17
- bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels, EuAndreh, 2021/09/17