Hey Antoine,

"Antoine R. Dumont (@ardumont)" <ardum...@softwareheritage.org> skribis:

>>> My understanding is that so far these URLs were ignored by the
>>> lister/loader because they didn’t end in *.tar.*.⁰
>
> FWIW, in the "new" lister [1] implementation, there are a bunch of extra
> computations done [1] to try and resolve those situations. It's trying
> to fetch more information from upstream server (e.g. crates urls which
> ends in /download, ...) now. It's probably not exhaustive though.
>
> [1] 
> https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/swh/devel/swh-lister/-/blob/master/swh/lister/nixguix/lister.py?ref_type=heads
>
>>> I’m sure Simon Tournier (Cc’d) already discussed with others at SWH
>>> how crucial it is for us to be able to query content by nar hash.
>
>> So yeah, we are looking forward to some ExtID interface.  :-)
>
> Yes, and there is an ongoing merge request about the new interface [2]
>
> [2] 
> https://gitlab.softwareheritage.org/swh/devel/swh-web/-/merge_requests/1220

These are both excellent news, thank you!

Ludo’.

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