A Nix store is three functions

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A Nix store is three functions

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Another interesting OCI registry-based binary cache for Nix:

GitHub - linyinfeng/oranc: OCI Registry As Nix Cache

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A Nix store is three functions | Farid Zakaria’s Blog

I link to GitHub - cmspam/nixcache-oci: Self-hosted Nix binary cache via GHCR (OCI registry) · GitHub as an example as well; similar purpose.

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Saw that! Actually believe I discovered oranc myself from the nixcache-oci Discourse thread:

Nixcache-oci: Use GHCR as a Nix binary cache

how does it compare to GitHub - linyinfeng/oranc: OCI Registry As Nix Cache · GitHub?

Nixcache-oci: Use GHCR as a Nix binary cache

I actually had no idea that project existed… and probably wouldn’t have made this one if I had. However upon comparison, I would say that oranc is probably more flexible to be used locally or to any OCI registry, while nixcache-oci is more opinionated to a github-based workflow – github builders and ghcr, auto-discovery, scheduled updates and garbage collection, all running from github. I think that with nixcache-oci I handle narinfo lookups better, using an in-memory index to decrease the num…