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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Dmitry Nikolaev <cameltheman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix hash of source from git repository.
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 17:17:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170221221733.GB18231@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH3JXcGvtfNkD898F-QWajJUcyZEHd=njCcUq7Na0rj-2Q4XEg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:19:35AM +0300, Dmitry Nikolaev wrote:
> When writing package definition, what if I download sources from git
> repository? For example:
> 
> (define-public libwebsockets
>   (package
>     (name "libwebsockets")
>     (version "1.3")
>     (source (origin
>               ;; The project does not publish tarballs, so we have to take
>               ;; things from Git.
>               (method git-fetch)
>               (uri (git-reference
>                     (url "git://git.libwebsockets.org/libwebsockets")
>                     (commit (string-append "v" version
>                                            "-chrome37-firefox30"))))
>               (sha256
>                (base32
>                 "12fqh2d2098mgf0ls19p9lzibpsqhv7mc5rn1yvrbfnazmcr40g4"))
>               (file-name (string-append name "-" version))))
> ...
> 
> How do I calculate this 12fqh2d...?

Clone the Git repository in the normal way, check out the Git commit you
want to base the Guix package on, and then do this:

$ guix hash --recursive --exclude-vcs path/to/git-repo

This is explained in the manual, section Invoking guix hash:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-hash.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-21 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-21 21:19 guix hash of source from git repository Dmitry Nikolaev
2017-02-21 21:25 ` Catonano
2017-02-21 21:56   ` ng0
2017-02-21 22:21     ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-06 10:55   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-21 22:17 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-02-22  8:23   ` Catonano

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