Hi Chris!

Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> skribis:

> I guess this raises two things in my mind. I'm not sure this'll work
> well given the not so recent changes to ci.guix.gnu.org. This module
> looks to rely on gzipped or uncompressed nars. I'm not sure uncompressed
> nars are available, and gzipped ones are no longer available.
>
> The second question is around the relation to bordeaux.guix.gnu.org, is
> it worth trying to support fetching nars from bordeaux.guix.gnu.org
> here, and what would be the best way of doing that? It wouldn't be too
> hard to add support for decomressed nars I think if that's a good
> approach?

Uh, that module needs love indeed.

Currently it’s used by some of the (guix VCS-download) modules.  I think
we should just update to (1) use lzip instead of gzip, and (2) have it
check ci.guix.gnu.org + bordeaux.guix.gnu.org.

Would you like to give it a try?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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