From: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
To: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Git repos with large submodules
Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 23:28:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh9pw1sn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200525020403.56f16a38@riseup.net>
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raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
> Hey all!
>
> So, I recently gave a go to packaging EDK2 on my channel, and found out
> that it requires several submodules, including OpenSSL, which take up
> quite a bit of space and take way longer to download than necessary.
>
> Since I couldn't find a way to shallow-init the submodules, I added
> them as separate origins and copied / symlinked them after the unpack
> phase.
That sounds like a decent workaround. Even better to symlink
(package-source openssl) to use the OpenSSL sources from Guix.
The ideal solution would of course be to provide OpenSSL as a regular
input and make the build system use it, but that's not always feasible.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-30 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 0:04 Git repos with large submodules raingloom
2020-05-30 21:28 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2020-05-31 16:32 ` Leo Famulari
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