Re: [PATCH 0/5] python2-variants

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 09:07:42PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Feb 2016 03:10:58 -0500
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> 
> > These patches apply the new python2-variant system introduced in
> > 1be83341 to python2-{cryptography, jsonschema, wheel, requests}, and
> > then split acme into python-acme and python2-acme.
> > 
> > As usual, I tested the changes to acme / letsencrypt by renewing the
> > certificates of my webserver [0].
> > 
> > I'm not 100% confident in the style of these changes, or in the
> > selection of packages I updated, aside from this being the minimum
> > number of packages to update in order to split acme in two. But it seems
> > that it's not necessary to update the full graph of packages touched by
> > these changes.
> > 
> > Feedback?
> > 
> > [0]
> > It turns out that my server can't build python2-cryptography from
> > source. I guess that 1 GB RAM is not enough. So I learned how to use
> > `guix archive` :)
> 
> I've never had to use guix archive. Is it something where having more swap
> would've helped?

I built python2-cryptography on my workstation and then used `guix
archive` to transfer the result to the tiny server. It was very easy to
follow the instructions :)

> 
> > 
> > Leo Famulari (5):
> >   gnu: python-cryptography: Define 'python2-variant'.
> >   gnu: python-jsonschema: Define 'python2-variant'.
> >   gnu: python-wheel: Define 'python2-variant'.
> >   gnu: python-requests: Define 'python2-variant'.
> >   gnu: Split acme into python-acme and python2-acme.
> > 
> >  gnu/packages/python.scm | 47 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> >  gnu/packages/tls.scm    | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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