From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
Cc: Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>, 62656@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62656: broken guix time-machine + software-heritage
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 09:57:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3okZ0G2Jn41H+9pWskgo0eYOEpSB+GSggxz9Cr7dAZNSm1qg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkj0v9w0.fsf@inria.fr>
Hi Ludo,
On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 09:22, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:
> > Even if the bug on SWH would be fixed, at the rate the Guix repo is
> > growing, it would be impractical to cook the whole Guix repo.
>
> Falling back to SWH to fetch channels is something we expect to be rare,
> though.
Being rare will not make it practical. ;-)
What I am trying to point is that considering the size of the Guix
repository and its rate, the current implementation will not scale and
the fallback will be impossible for the end-user.
> > And it appears to me weird when we, most of the time, need a very
> > restricted set of commits.
> >
> > We could imagine to locally create a new repo (git init) and only add
> > the content of the commit specified by “guix time-machine”.
>
> To do that we’d need to say goodbye to the features I mentioned above.
Well, I do not see which features will be missing. I am talking about
making practical:
guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- shell -m manifest.scm
and not having a complete working Guix. Well, I read a paper that
mentions this command line, I want to inspect so I am running this
command. Somehow, I do not care about the others 114456 commits of
the history. And for sure "guix time-machine -C channels.scm --
describe -f channels" will not be a fixed-point.
Maybe, we could imagine an option for shortcutting the complete clone
and restrict to one specific commit.
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-04 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-03 21:39 bug#62656: broken guix time-machine + software-heritage Nicolas Graves via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-04-04 10:51 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-26 9:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-04-26 10:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-24 13:23 ` Simon Tournier
2023-04-28 14:43 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-02 7:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-02 18:01 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-04 7:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-04 7:57 ` Simon Tournier [this message]
2023-05-04 13:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-04 17:00 ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-05 7:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-02-04 13:03 ` bug#62656: close 62656 Nicolas Graves via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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