bug#45895: closed (Channel authentication should start at the current commit(s))

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> Channel authentication should start at the current commit(s)
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> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:44:49 +0100
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> Hi!
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> Currently, the first ‘guix pull’ (when ~/.cache/guix is empty)
> authenticates starting from the introductory commit.  For the ‘guix’
> channel, that’s 11K commits today, which takes about a minute to process
> on modern hardware.
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> Authentication should instead consider the current commits, as returned
> by ‘guix describe’, authenticated, and start from there.
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> For example, if you install Guix 1.3, authentication should start at the
> ‘v1.3’ commit.
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> Ludo’.
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> Re: bug#45895: Channel authentication should start at the current commit(s)
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> >>From 9bbce577036f2018d605d111042b0a7fc1be266b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
> > Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 09:37:33 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] channels: Consider the current channel commit as authentic.
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> > Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/45895>.
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> > When the ~/.cache/guix/authentication is empty, this change allows
> > authentication to start at the current commit, as shown by 'guix
> > describe', instead of starting from the introductory commit, which would
> > take more and more time (there's currently 18K commits per year).
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> > * guix/git-authenticate.scm (authenticate-repository): Add 
> > #:authentic-commits.
> > [authenticated-commits]: Append it.
> > * guix/channels.scm (authenticate-channel)[authentic-commits]: New
> > variable.  Pass it to 'authenticate-repository'.
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> Pushed as 29009fdb2d3636eafa77b406da2430b08a22d47e.
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> Ludo’.
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