Re: Packaging big generated data files?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 at 11:33, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 
<GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> wrote:

> The issue here is probably the size of the generated files: they are
> huge, so if they are packaged, they will most likely take significant
> resources in the Guix infrastructure.
>
> So what would be the way to go here? Would Guix accept patches to add
> packages for these files in Guix proper?  

>From my point of view, the data and the code should be packaged
separately; the package data using copy-build-system would be an input
for the package code.

> If so, does it needs to be done like with the ZFS (kernel module)
> package where "#:substitutable? #f" is used to avoid redistributing
> package builds? Or are other ways better for such use cases?

Yes, ’#:substitutable? #f’ seems the first way to go.


Cheers,
simon