From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Subject: bug#30113: SVN checkouts without descriptive file names Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:43:27 +0100 Message-ID: <04cea8f4-3bee-9992-2e9e-b5c2e25ca5a8@tobias.gr> References: <20180114160253.GA17578@jasmine.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36110) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ealLG-00046y-2s for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:41:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ealLC-0002Pk-WA for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:41:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ealLC-0002Pb-QQ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:41:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ealLC-0005nS-Ks for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 11:41:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: boskovits@gmail.com, leo@famulari.name Cc: 30113@debbugs.gnu.org Gábor Boskovits wrote on 14/01/18 at 17:13: > Maybe we could use guix to check for these, and some > other things could also be spotted. > WDYT? Agreed, I think. I don't see how defaulting to ‘...${VCS_TYPE}-checkout’ ever makes sense or saves effort. We should be able to improve the quality of these guesses: the repository URI is about as likely to be foo://bar/... as a regular tarball URI. Or we make a file-name mandatory for certain methods. *goes to look at the actual code*, T G-R