From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: use of git-fetch Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHxNV-0007s0-Hk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:25 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHxNR-0002wv-G7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:21 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:35228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZHxNR-0002wC-Bd for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:00:17 -0400 Received: by pabkd10 with SMTP id kd10so69298039pab.2 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 10:00:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Federico Beffa Cc: Guix-devel On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to package some emacs libraries that appear not to have a > GNU style installation procedure. Given that MELPA is unusable, I'm > trying to use 'git-fetch'. > > The package 'emacs-dash' (see attachment) works as expected. However, > the package 'emacs-s' also downloads 'dash' and not 's'. I cloned with > git the two repositories with the given URLs and they definitely are > different. > > Am I doing something wrong? Are you deleting the '.git' directory before computing the hash of the directory? That is a necessary step. Consider this a call for someone to extend 'guix download' to work with Git repositories so people don't have to do this tedious process. Any takers? - Dave