Re: Disarchive database includes tar.xz archives

[zimoun]

Hi,

Cool!

On dim., 07 août 2022 at 19:27, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> 
wrote:

> Computing these has been possible since Disarchive 0.4.0, which Timothy
> released in Dec. 2021 but we had not updated
> ‘etc/disarchive-manifest.scm’ to disassemble tar.xz archives in addition
> to tar.gz.

I do not the remember the status of tar.xz in nixguix SWH loader.


> Note commit eab5366e679c149cf0a5abeb9a196700b171d9da excludes that
> Chromium tarball: it takes 1.4 GiB (!) and when running ‘disarchive
> disassemble’ on it, we hit the default max-silent time of 1h (and (gnu
> ci) doesn’t let us specify a different timeout in this particular case.)
> We could work around it by making Disarchive print a progress report,
> which would be nice to have anyway.

Or we could also ask if we need to disassemble and archive this Chromium
tarball.  Does the world need to hold such big program for just web
browsing ?  I am half-joking. :-)


Cheers,
simon