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From: Vivien Kraus via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, 63331@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, 65866@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#65866] bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency and built-in git checkouts
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:16:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ae8a6379d508bf5eb69e3540f6dba5a2c0374de.camel@planete-kraus.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pm2osrot.fsf@gnu.org>

Hello!

Le lundi 11 septembre 2023 à 16:36 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
> Eventually, when users are all running recent versions of
> ‘guix-daemon’ with support for “builtin:git-download” (2–4
> years from now?), we’ll be able to use “builtin:git-download”
> unconditionally and thus be sure there are no risks of
> derivation cycles.

Do foreign distros need to update their guix package as well? If that
is the case, the provided time frame might be optimistic.

> Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git.
> This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git

I applaud the switch to the regular git program from libgit2, as I
would then be able to pull from my cgit "dumb" server instead of having
to maintain a mirror.

Vivien




       reply	other threads:[~2023-09-11 15:12 UTC|newest]

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2023-09-11 20:57     ` [bug#65866] [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts Ludovic Courtès

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