Re: What's the state of (guix build download-nar)?

[Christopher Baines]

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Chris!
>>
>> Christopher Baines <mail@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?
>
> That approach sounds good to me, I'll have a look at drafting a patch.

I've sent a patch for this now: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62129

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