Hi, On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 00:02, [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> (Cc’ing <https://bugs.gnu.org/32022> and <https://bugs.gnu.org/26608>, > which are related.) > > Alex Sassmannshausen <[email protected]> skribis: > >> I don't know if this is what Konrad desires, but from my perspective, a >> desirable part of the definition of stable would be a that the build >> farms have produced a set of binaries/substitutes for a given Guix >> revision that is "good enough". > > I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing > something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: > > (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available > %default-channels) > > The hypothetical ‘latest-commit-with-substitutes-available’ would use > (git) and (guix ci) to find the latest commit for which substitutes of > interest are available, and would return: > > (channel > ;; … > (commit "cabbag3")) ;the ideal commit > > This has to be done with great care to prevent a downgrade attack and to > make sure the user doesn’t miss out on security updates, but maybe we > could provide a procedure that makes reasonable choices. >From my understanding, this bug can be close because: <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Channels-with-Substitutes> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#Channel-Authentication> WDYT? All the best, simon
