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Add support for other formats of Guix channels

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: EuAndreh <eu <at> euandre.org>
Cc: 50606 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#50606: Add support for other formats of Guix channels
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 22:21:40 +0200

EuAndreh <eu <at> euandre.org> skribis:

> My proposal was a little more crude: get the channel code from a tarball.  In
> this model there are no authentications with fingerprint or signed commits,
> neither "guix pull" would know much about the before/after state of a channel
> besides comparing the checksum of the whole tarball.
>
> This lower level abstraction is much less sofisticated, and would probably mean
> refetching and rebuilding from tarball-backed channels than Git channels.  But
> this also means that the requirement is lower, and much more universal: a
> tarball file served over HTTP, compared to a specific Git HTTP protocol.

Note that we already have -L and GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH as an alternative to
full-blown channels.  I’d recommend using that when in need of a
lightweight alternative.  How does that sound?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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