Subject: bug#39051: nginx caching headers are broken due to epoch store timestamps

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 22:24:27 +0100

Hi,

Gábor Boskovits <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Hello,
>
> Robert Vollmert <[email-masked]> ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 9., Cs, 11:54):
>>
>> I’ve been having hard-to-debug caching issues serving up static files
>> with nginx. It turns out this is due to nginx computing e-tag headers
>> from file timestamps, which are all epoch in the guix store.
>>
>> I’ve fixed this on my server by applying a patch from Nix:
>> https://github.com/robx/guix/commit/4b406f5bc608b3c0e18e15795d8fe61d3477a3e2
>
> this is a known issue. Could you look around the tracker and merge?

Done.  Previous discussion:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37207

Thanks,
Ludo’, also eager to see a proper fix!