GNU bug report logs - #40993
cuirass: Add build products download support.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 08:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <mathieu <at> meru.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe <at> gmail.com>, 40993 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40993] cuirass: Add build products download support.
Date: Fri, 01 May 2020 23:11:38 +0200

Hi,

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

> Though I agree using sendfile would be much better, especially since the user
> can download 800 MB image files there.
>
> The guile (web server) module allows passing a procedure as the #:body, but
> then it makes a bytevector out of the result and hard-codes the content-type :P.
>
> Eventually (web server http) http-write is reached, which only supports encoding
> bytevectors and #f, that's it.  No files.
>
> So we'd have to overwrite http-write.

See how ‘guix publish’ uses ‘sendfile’ for nars.  It’s hacky because it
works around <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/21093>.

Ludo’.
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