Just finished presenting how #SoftwareHeritage helps #Guix achieve reproducible deployment, including the latest advances around #Disarchive.

Great to have the opportunity to share with this fine audience!

And of course, 👍 to Timothy, Simon, and everyone who made it happen in the first place. 🙂

@civodul Congrats!

Would be nice for #NixOS to use Disarchive.

How do you fill disarchive.guix.gnu.org? Do you pull the json file?

(i'm actually wondering if NixOS could use your tarball metadata server :/)

@lewo There’s a CI job continuously “disarchiving” and populating the database:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-10/msg00060.html

Would be nice if this could be useful to NixOS!

Perhaps it could be maintained by SWH longer-term—we’ll see.

Disarchive update

@lewo BTW, I talked about the “nixguix” loader you worked on and which allowed us to tremendously improve archive coverage!

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/plain/talks/swh-unesco-2021/talk.20211130.pdf

@civodul Thx! And I'm glad this is useful for Guix!