Re: Support rsync to help Chinese users to setup mirrors

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> writes:

> How do you create this cache? Maybe we can just follow you in the same
> way. We're not trying to fetch packages like regular Guix clients, we'd
> like to provide a mirror/cache to help users to accelerate downloading
> inside the firewall covered area.

Guix clients fetch binaries in nar and narinfo format.  Mirroring them
might be sufficient.  To create the cache requires running “guix
publish” with a /gnu/store, which cannot easily be mirrored as it needs
to be in sync with its database.

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Ricardo