Subject: Re: bug#37207: guix.gnu.org Last Modified at epoch

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 22:32:42 +0200

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <[email-masked]> skribis:

> we should create a file with the git last modification time of the files,
> updated when there is a new commit in the repo => last-modified
> we should create a file with some hash of the files, updated when there is
> a new commit in the repo => etag
> we could restrict these operations to the files modified since the last
> checkout.
>
> Retrieve these with embededd perl.
> Wdyt?

What would the config look like?  AFAICS our ‘nginx’ package doesn’t
embed Perl, and I think it’s better this way.  :-)  Can we do that with
pure nginx directives?

We create /srv/guix.gnu.org (as a symlink) with the correct mtime¹.  If
we can tell nginx to use it as the ‘Last-Modified’ date, that’s perfect.

Ludo’.

¹ https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/berlin.scm#n212