That way, the default config with (advertises? #t) and without a cache
will offer zstd-compressed substitutes, which should lead to much higher
throughput than gzip.
* gnu/services/base.scm (default-compression): When
'guix-publish-configuration-cache' returns true, use higher level
compression ratios. Add "zstd".
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Mention zstd.
@code{guix-configuration} above) to discover this @command{guix publish}
instance and to automatically download substitutes from it.
-@item @code{compression} (default: @code{'(("gzip" 3))})
+@item @code{compression} (default: @code{'(("gzip" 3) ("zstd" 3))})
This is a list of compression method/level tuple used when compressing
substitutes. For example, to compress all substitutes with @emph{both} lzip
at level 7 and gzip at level 9, write:
raise a deprecation warning if the 'compression-level' field was used."
(match (%guix-publish-configuration-compression-level config)
(#f
- '(("gzip" 3)))
+ ;; Default to low compression levels when there's no cache so that users
+ ;; get good bandwidth by default.
+ (if (guix-publish-configuration-cache config)
+ '(("gzip" 5) ("zstd" 19))
+ '(("gzip" 3) ("zstd" 3)))) ;zstd compresses faster
(level
(warn-about-deprecation 'compression-level properties
#:replacement 'compression)