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guix time-machine fails when a tarball was modified in-place

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 39575 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 28659 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39575: guix time-machine fails when a tarball was modified in-place
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:59:01 +0100

Hi!

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

> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 22:34, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Also, one could argue that we’d steer users towards downloading from our
>> server, which could be a privacy concern (probably not a strong argument
>> since one can easily change the substitute URLs.)
>
> I am not following the privacy concern.
> What do you mean?

I mean that by default, someone who’s disabled substitutes (presumably
out of security or privacy concerns) would find themself downloading
source code from ci.guix.gnu.org instead of various upstream sites.

Ludo’.

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