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| author | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2021-12-05 20:06:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> | 2021-12-05 20:44:58 +0000 |
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diff --git a/README.org b/README.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c9090be --- /dev/null +++ b/README.org @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +-*- mode: org -*- + +This is a utility for managing a collection of nars (normalized +archives, in the context of Guix) along with the corresponding narinfo +files which contain some signed metadata. + +While tasks like publishing local store items as nars is easy with +tools like =guix publish=, =nar-herder= is aimed at enabling serving +the same collection of nars from multiple machines at once, including +moving the nars from machine to machine according to different +criteria. + +A reverse proxy (like nginx) should be used for the actual serving of +the nars, as well as handling proxying the requests to =nar-herder=. |