[Nix-dev] Binary cache substituter

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 19/09/12 14:49, Michael Raskin wrote:

> Hm. What about hash-of-name -> list-of-binary patches lists? It would be
> just as bad as MANIFEST from mutability point of view, but without 
> downloading a huge chunk of data in one sitting.

Yeah, we'll probably need some manifest-lite for the patches.  And keying it on
the package name makes sense.  At least with patches it's not fatal it the
manifest is not in sync - you just get full binaries instead of patches.

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