Re: how to customize mirror list used in custom channels?

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 at 12:11, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

>   (origin
>     (method url-fetch)
>     (uri (list URL1 URL2 URL3))
>     (base32 …))

Neat!  This is nice for one or two packages.


> See for example how ‘qtbase’ does it.

Well, it looks like it is a manual implementation of the Guix mirror
mechanism.


> Now, if you really want to extend the set of things recognized, you
> could write variant of ‘url-fetch’ that passes a different #:mirrors
> argument to ‘built-in-download’.  Maybe ‘url-fetch’ could have a
> #:mirrors parameter to simplify it.

Why is it not possible to extend ’%mirrors?  For instance, it is
possible to extend ’%load-path’.  Why not %mirrors?


Cheers,
simon