[Nix-dev] how to find packages by file?

[Domen Kožar]

It's a few GB per channel commit. At least stored in SQL as-is.

With compression and denormalization that could be improved though :)

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 15 March 2017 at 16:00, Domen Kožar <domen at dev.si> wrote:
> > https://github.com/Enlambda/nix-channelstatus has working RESTful API to
> > search by files,
> > I plan to publish that as a web service in upcoming weeks.
>
> That's nice, but IMHO we need that info offline. I think it could be
> made a part of a channel, like the command-not-found DB, but for all
> files, not just binaries.
>
> Debian has apt-file, we should have something similar.
>
> Best regards,
> Bjørn Forsman
>
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