* [bug#65866] bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency and built-in git checkouts [not found] ` <87pm2osrot.fsf@gnu.org> @ 2023-09-11 15:16 ` Vivien Kraus via Guix-patches via 2023-09-11 20:57 ` [bug#65866] [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts Ludovic Courtès 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Vivien Kraus via Guix-patches via @ 2023-09-11 15:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ludovic Courtès, 63331; +Cc: Simon Josefsson, 65866 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* [bug#65866] [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts 2023-09-11 15:16 ` [bug#65866] bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency and built-in git checkouts Vivien Kraus via Guix-patches via @ 2023-09-11 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2023-09-11 20:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Vivien Kraus; +Cc: Simon Josefsson, 65866, 63331 Hi, Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> skribis: > 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. At some point, we can change clients to print a warning saying that their daemon is outdated if it lacks “builtin:git-download”. That should help speed things up. >> 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. Nothing changes here: ‘git-fetch’ already uses Git. Ludo’. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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