Re: Handling nars/narinfos at scale, some ideas...

2021-02-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris! Christopher Baines skribis: > When serving from a store, you can use guix gc to remove items, and gc > roots to protect the items you want to keep. I'm not aware of similar > tooling when you just have a bunch of nars+narinfo files. This means you > either just delete files based on wh

Handling nars/narinfos at scale, some ideas...

2021-02-06 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, This is something I've been thinking about for a while, I also ended up setting out some of these ideas on IRC a few days ago [1]. 1: https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2021-02-01.log#222156 While I think the approach taken in the Guix Build Coordinator for serving substitutes for built outputs