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From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 45676@debbugs.gnu.org,
	"Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#45676: Store references inside compressed data
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:24:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98965ea00ce05ba435535e4347dfdfc409c10ec2.camel@student.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87turj19zh.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Ludo,

Am Donnerstag, den 14.01.2021, 22:31 +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> skribis:
> 
> > From 57c23bf6ecac79c397cb49ff251176ec3a7b1cf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > 2001
> > From: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
> > Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 09:24:07 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Don't install compressed archives.
> > 
> > See <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/45676#3>;.
> 
> Perhaps make it a comment next to the option.
I'll keep that in mind, but I wasn't going to commit this unless it is
absolutely needed.

> > * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs)[#:configure-flags]:
> > Add --without-compress-install.
> > (emacs-minimal)[#:configure-flags]: Likewise.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +                               "--without-compress-install"
> 
> Does that disable .el file compression altogether for Emacs’ own
> files?
> 
> If so, isn’t it too much?  Do these file currently contain store file
> names?
> 
> (I know EMMS .el files for instance are full of store file names, so
> that one should definitely not be gzipped, but Emacs itself may be
> fine?)
As far as I know, this is an all or nothing deal.  If I'm not mistaken,
however, all those references should still exist in the compiled (and
not compressed) .go files however, hence it making little difference. 
Perhaps time stamps could be added during compression, but I think our
Emacs reproducibility issues lie elsewhere as well.

All in all, I don't think there's a technical reason to do this (yet),
merely the somewhat purist stance of "no compressed source files".

Regards,
Leo





  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-14 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-05 14:36 bug#45676: Store references inside compressed data Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-01-05 20:22 ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-05 20:22 ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-06 11:35   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-06 16:57     ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2021-01-07 11:05       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-05 22:33 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2021-01-06  8:54   ` Leo Prikler
2021-01-14 21:31     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-01-14 22:24       ` Leo Prikler [this message]
2021-01-06 18:40   ` Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas

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