Re: Guix mirrors

[Begley Brothers Inc]

Thanks to @kozodev on gitlab.com, a possible workaround, available
immediately, is to document the following in the web pages and alt-F2
help as appropriate:

3.6.2 Proceeding with the Installation

8.1 Using the Configuration System

with (note the inital root init channel path needs to be inserted)

```bash
...
(use-package-modules screen)

;; Your `guix system init /etc/conf.scm` or
;; susequent `guix pull` and `guix system reconfigure` may
;; fail because the Guix server is unavailable - you will see
;; HTTPS errors 404, 504, 502.
;; In this situtaion, please use one of:
;;   - "https://mirror1.com/x/y/z/guix.git";
;;   - "https://mirror2.com/a/guix.git";
;;   - "https://mirror2.com/d/e/guix.git";
;; in the `with-output-to-file` code below. Which you should uncomment,
;; then re-run:
;;
;; # guix system init /etc/conf.scm
;;
;; NOTE: Air-Gapped Facility Users.
;; If you are using guix in an air-gapped facility you will
;; need to add your Guix repository and uncomment this code
;; *before* running:
;;
;; # guix system init /etc/conf.scm
;;
;; There is curently no other way to repoint the init phase
;; to your air-gapped repository.

;;(with-output-to-file "/path/to/roots/first/init/channels.scm"
;;  (lambda ()
;;    (display "(cons* (channel (name 'guix) (url
\"https://internal.net/x/y/z/guix.git\";)) %default-channels)")))

(operating-system
...
```

HTH?


On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 2:32 AM Begley Brothers Inc
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Over the last 24 hours I've experienced `guix pull` etc being
> unavailable (HTTP 504's then 502's) more than available.
>
> Is there a reason why a post receive hook can't be added to the guix
> repo to push to github, gitlab, etc. and in that way at least give
> users some protection against these outages?
>
> There is a mirror[1] possibly (unofficial?) but it looks like it is
> driven by some chron task.
>
> The required post receive hook is well documented[2], and not
> un-common amoung reputable OS projects:
>
> - Android
> - The Apache Software Foundation
> - The Chromium Project
> - The Eclipse Foundation
> - The FreeBSD Project
> - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler
> - GNOME
> - The Linux kernel source tree
> - Qt
>
> [1]: https://github.com/guix-mirror/guix
> [2]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks
>
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