extend ’guix archive’?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 23:07, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Regarding nar-herder, I think it’d be nice to have a solution to
> mirroring in Guix proper, developed similarly to other components,
> because it could be a fairly central tool.
>
> ‘guix publish’ is probably not extensible enough to support that, but we
> could make it a new ‘guix mirror’ or ‘guix sync’ or whatever command.

Why not extend “guix archive”?

However, without all the details so my remark is totally naive, I miss
what “nar-herder” is doing that “guix archive”+rsync+“guix publish” is
not doing – other said I miss why another SQL database is required to
serve stuff from one place to another.  I have read README but I did not
get the point.


Cheers,
simon