Hello! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
>> somehow propagated-inputs don't go into the archive. You'd think they are >> critical >> dependencies. >> >> Q1: is that to be expected? > > I’m not sure, but it seems wrong. I understand it’s weird, but it’s expected: ‘guix archive’ is a low-level thing that works at the store level. Propagated inputs are a package-level concept, so it doesn’t know about it. >> NAR files are signed. I think it would be very useful to be able to >> distribute unsigned NAR files. >> >> Q2: can signing/checking be made optional? No, on purpose. However unsigned archives would be useful for content-addressed items (e.g., source code downloads), and it’s currently not supported. >> Q3: how do we view the contents of a NAR file without unpacking it? > > I don’t think you can. It’s a custom format implemented by > nix/libutil/archive.cc. It’s also implemented in (guix nar). :-) So it Wouldn’t Be Hard to implement a content browsers and support “guix archive -t”. Ludo’.
