Hi Ludovic, Thank you for this valuable initiative :-). I like that it sits in few lines and should already be useful for local searches with a minimal front command to query it.
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Hi! > > Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> skribis: > >> What about ... a roughly weekly job that runs on ci.guix. to create the >> database and packages of parts of the database and a channel that >> includes those and utilities to query them so that you can install the >> packages and refresh them at your leisure... >> >> Or just put the packages in the main repository, and update it manually >> roughly weekly? > > Making the database a package (or set of packages) sounds quite weird or > at least very unusual from a Guix viewpoint, where packages normally > describe build procedures. > > But a cron job publishing a file somewhere, why not! I also had the idea of making it a package... this way only the people who opt to install the database locally would incur the cost (in bandwidth). Perhaps a question for Vagrant: talking about size, is this SQLite database file comparable or smaller in size to the apt-file database that needs to be downloaded? With the Debian software catalog being about 30% bigger, I'd expect a similarly bigger file size. If Debian is doing better in terms of database file size, we could look at how they're doing it. Thank you! Maxim
