On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, zimoun wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 23:07, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
Regarding nar-herder, I think it’d be nice to have a solution to
mirroring in Guix proper, developed similarly to other components,
because it could be a fairly central tool.
‘guix publish’ is probably not extensible enough to support that, but we
could make it a new ‘guix mirror’ or ‘guix sync’ or whatever command.
Why not extend “guix archive”?
Hi all,
I'm quite interested in learning more and potentially trying out the
nar-herder! Some thoughts that I'd like to add to the design space:
I think it would be great if one of the pastures to which we herd the nars
would be a free and open source software mirror site. In my experience,
these are usually some static web hosting in front of a large disk with a
place to run scripts to sync the content. A database server may not be
available. I'd like to support this use case because I think it is a great
way to build bridges to the communities who run or gather around these
mirrors.
I'd also like the ability fetch nars directly from the local-to-me mirror
rather than having them be proxied through a far way server.
One of the things that I really like and find empowering about Guix is
that the developer/system administration tools are as available, easy to
use, and convenient as the every day tooling. To the extent possible, I
think that we should strive to make our syncing/mirroring solution
practical to run for local, small setups, and not require project-scale
infrastructure or coordination between many programs that are not captured
in a Guix service.
Best,
Jack
