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Re: Disarchive update
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Disarchive update |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 16:02:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hey!
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:
> Timothy made this table months ago:
>
> tar+gz 9090 52.0%
> git 5294 30.3%
> tar+xz 1184 06.8%
> tar+bz2 775 04.4%
> tar 393 02.2%
> zip 273 01.6%
> svn-multi 175 01.0%
> svn 125 00.7%
> file 51 00.3%
> computed 38 00.2%
> hg 36 00.2%
> unknown-uri 20 00.1%
> tar+gz? 15 00.1%
> tar+lz 13 00.1%
> tar+Z 4 00.0%
> cvs 3 00.0%
> bzr 3 00.0%
> tar+lzma 2 00.0%
> total 17494 100.0%
>
> What is really missing is XZ and Bzip2 support in Disarchive, I guess.
Definitely, we know what to work on next!
> Timothy was working on feeding the database using each release. Well,
> you can give a look at:
>
> <https://git.ngyro.com/preservation-of-guix>
Ah nice! I had completely overlooked this.
[...]
>> A plan we can already deploy would be:
>>
>> 1. Add the disarchive.guix.gnu.org DNS entry, pointing to berlin.
>>
>> 2. On berlin, add an mcron job that periodically copies the output of
>> the latest “disarchive-collection” build to a directory, say
>> /srv/disarchive. Thus, the database would accumulate tarball
>> metadata over time.
>>
>> 3. Add an nginx route so that /srv/disarchive is served at
>> https://disarchive.guix.gnu.org.
>>
>> 4. Add disarchive.guix.gnu.org to (guix download).
>
> To replace (or add to) the current ’%disarchive-mirrors’ right?
Exactly.
> Going this road (use Cuirass), why not generating the sources.json
> similarly? Instead of the hack using the website builder.
I guess that would also work, indeed. Then we could make /source.json
redirect to ci.guix.gnu.org/whatever/latest.
> On my side, I will try to resume what I started months ago: knowing the
> SWH coverage. For instance, on this ~92% of tarballs, how many are
> currently stored into SWH? Well, do not take your breath and I would be
> happy if someone beats me. ;-)
Yup, we definitely need that kind of info now!
Ludo’.
Re: Disarchive update, Timothy Sample, 2021/10/13
Re: Disarchive update, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/10/14