Well, providing a .iso with compression would hopefully be similar to .iso.xz, and it would allow us to provision guix directly in gnome-boxes etc, that rely on osinfo-db (we have guix there, but no URL because of the extension).
Le 8 avril 2021 14:50:58 GMT-04:00, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> a écrit : >On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 05:31:57AM +0000, bo0od wrote: >> I see that guix compress its image here: >> >> https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/ >> >> Which im not sure why (I dont see any known project doing that), > >The reason is to save bandwidth. > >> But regardless to the reason behind it this is actually give some >> problems to users who want to use Guix on outside server, Many host >> providers nowadays they give the opportunity to install whatever the >> user want from distros according to his wish from outside source but >> one thing needed for that is the URL to the .iso , And the host gonna >> download/run/import the .iso for the user. > >I have two suggestions: > >1) Host the uncompressed ISO yourself and send that link to your host >provider > >2) Ask the host provider to download and uncompress the ISO on their >own. They should be able to do this because they will have to store the >ISO file on their servers anyways.
