From: Robert Vollmert <rob@vllmrt.net>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git-fetch origin output is read-only - and reproducibility
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:58:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AB6ACD2C-6227-4271-8B72-39E9DBE621A6@vllmrt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1c07sdf.fsf@elephly.net>
> On 29. Jul 2019, at 17:49, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
>> currently, when using the git-fetch origin, the resulting source will have
>> all files read-only. Further phases trying to do reproducibility patches have
>> to manually chmod in order to be able to patch.
>>
>> Can we change that? For example change what this origin does or change what
>> the build systems do by default?
>
> I think this would be good. It’s a little annoying when switching from
> a tarball to git-fetch because you’ll have to add a phase that makes all
> files writable.
>
> This would probably have to be changed in the unpack phase of the
> gnu-build-system, which copies files recursively when the sources are a
> directory (instead of a tarball).
At the risk of getting slightly off-topic, I was very surprised when I figured
out that such things were left to the build system. Couldn’t the source/origin
abstraction consistently refer a directory tree *or* a tarball?
Cheers
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-29 14:57 git-fetch origin output is read-only - and reproducibility Danny Milosavljevic
2019-07-29 15:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-29 15:58 ` Robert Vollmert [this message]
2019-07-29 16:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-30 7:37 ` Robert Vollmert
2019-08-22 21:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
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