This approach has several differences with emacs2nix:
- the updater uses a downloaded recipes.json and archive.json for commit information, it uses a local checkout only for hashing the recipes
- the generated file is JSON
- the updater is written in emacs lisp
- prefetch errors are put into an error key in the JSON, for review + meta.broken attributes are generated from it
The updater re-uses the existing generated file to memoize prefetched content-sha256s for commits, thus prefetching should normally be quite fast.
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