From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Adonay Felipe Nogueira <adfeno@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnu: abbaye: Update to 2.0.1 from new repository.
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:03:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124010316.GA14752@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgu2j65y.fsf@openmailbox.org>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:46:01AM -0200, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote:
> About suggestion to use tarball snapshots instead of git-fetch: That's
> interesting, I once read that `guix refresh` would behave better with
> git-fetch methods than with url-fetch methods. But, as I found out
> recently, it does seem that git-fetch imposes heavy load due to the
> current innability to make shallow clones. So I'm now waiting for
> others' input in this matter: Should I reformat the patch such that
> url-fetch is used instead?
I prefer to use url-fetch with a tarball. First, upstream maintainers
have typically prepared the tarball beyond what can be found from a Git
tag. Second, it prevents the package from depending on Git, which is a
large package.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-15 13:48 gnu: abbaye: Update to 2.0.1 from new repository Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-01-20 17:31 ` Alex Kost
2017-01-23 12:46 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-01-24 1:03 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-02-03 19:58 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-17 12:03 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
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