Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: >> The more we make progress, the more it seems we won’t be able to avoid >> storing multiple hashes. > > Yes, it appears to me unavoidable. The question is where store such > hashes? At the origin level? At the package level via ’properties’? > Using an external service?

Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-20 Thread zimoun
Hi, > The more we make progress, the more it seems we won’t be able to avoid > storing multiple hashes. Yes, it appears to me unavoidable. The question is where store such hashes? At the origin level? At the package level via ’properties’? Using an external service? As Disarchive database? O

Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Timothy Sample skribis: > One way to handle things like partial checkouts is to revisit storing > SWHIDs with our origins. If you have the directory ID, you can just > download the directory from SWH without worrying about SVN at all. It > would also give us an easy way to handle Bazaar an

Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-18 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi, Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2022-01-18, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Timothy Sample skribis: >>> A really important thing to do at this point is to verify that some >>> reasonable looking computation is covered by what we are doing already. >>> For instance, is every source used to build Gu

Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-01-18, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Timothy Sample skribis: >> A really important thing to do at this point is to verify that some >> reasonable looking computation is covered by what we are doing already. >> For instance, is every source used to build Guile (or Python or R) >> preserved? Thi

Re: Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Timothy Sample skribis: > I’ve published a new preservation of Guix report: > > https://ngyro.com/pog-reports/latest/ > > Actually, the URL is , but I > thought having a way to reference the latest report would be helpful. Nice! [...] > A rea

Preservation of Guix report 2022-01-16

2022-01-16 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi all, I’ve published a new preservation of Guix report: https://ngyro.com/pog-reports/latest/ Actually, the URL is , but I thought having a way to reference the latest report would be helpful. There’s no big news in the report. I’ve tracked down