Re: extend ’guix archive’?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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”?

‘guix archive’ is a low-level tool that does very little right now; it’s
pretty far from ‘guix publish’ and related concerns.

Ludo’.