Hi!

zimoun <[email protected]> skribis:

> On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 at 23:30, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thus I moved the former (apps packages builder) module of the web site
>> to a script in maintenance.git, and had it run as a periodic mcron job
>> populating /srv/package-metadata, with nginx serving these two files
>> from that directory:
>>
>>   5664984 * hydra: web: Add mcron job to build /packages.json and 
>> /sources.json.
>>   318db3e * hydra: Add 'build-package-metadata.scm' script.
>
> Cool!  Thank you.
>
> I still have a WIP about turning this into manifest and then build
> sources.json via CI (Cuirass).  Well, I do not know if it would be
> useful or better compared to this new Guix REPL script.

I initially considered making it a manifest, as you had proposed a while
back, but all the “computation” (turning metadata into JSON) happens on
the “host side”, so I figured there’s no need for derivations and all.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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