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Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer
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raid5atemyhomework |
Subject: |
Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Mar 2021 02:46:41 +0000 |
Hi Guix Developers,
I want to add a page to the installer to allow selection of substitute mirrors.
In particular, from my ISP, the SJTU mirror is significantly faster
(1MB/s->5MB/s) than directly from `ci.guix.gnu.org` (4kB/s->40kB/s), so I think
putting that option to the installer would be beneficial to others in similar
circumstances.
However, the current `(gnu installer services)` assumes that snippets are added
to a list of services. To implement substitute mirrors, I need to insert a
`modify-services` form with a `(guix-service-type config => (guix-configuration
(inherit config) (substitute-urls <whatever>))`.
What I want to propose is something like this:
* Add a `snippet-type` field to `<system-service>`, default `'service-list`.
* The field can instead be set to `'modify-services` to mean that the snippet
is to be in a `modify-services` form.
* In `system-services->configuration`, filter services according to
`snippet-type` and put the snippets in the appropriate parts of the `service`
form.
* Add entries for the SJTU mirror (with fallback to the original
`ci.guix.gnu.org`) and the default unmirrored `ci.guix.gnu.org`, with
`system-service-type` of `'substitute-urls`.
* Then in `(gnu installer newt services)`, add a page for `'substitute-urls`.
What do you think?
Thanks
raid5atemyhomework
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- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/03/15
- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, zimoun, 2021/03/15
- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, raid5atemyhomework, 2021/03/15
- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, raid5atemyhomework, 2021/03/16
- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, raid5atemyhomework, 2021/03/27
- Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer, Mathieu Othacehe, 2021/03/27