From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:56:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736gw6xrh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muf9n8sc.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:49:55 +0200")
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
> And... I have so many more questions!
>
>> ‘guix size’ and ‘guix gc -R’ show you the whole closure of the store
>> item, so you might not realize that some of the things that ought to be
>> direct dependencies are now in fact indirect dependencies.
>>
>> If sqlite ought to be a direct dependency and is now, in fact, an
>> indirect dependency, things won’t break right away: sqlite won’t be
>> deleted as long as next is live.
>>
>> But you’ll already run into problems: grafting will yield a broken next,
>> as in <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33848>.
>
> I think the aforementioned issue is different: it's about store paths
> that are written within Common Lisp code, which only happens here for
> the next-gtk-webkit executable. This is not related to SQLite or
> others, which are visible to the reference scanner.
>
> I don't understand how grafting could cause a problem: next-1.3.1-lib
> would still be present, right?
Same story: if the reference to ‘next-1.3.1-lib’ is invisible to the
scanner or grafting code (due to compression, or due use of a non-ASCII
compatible string encoding), the ‘next-1.3.1-lib’ might vanish.
Ludo’.
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[not found] ` <20190905095603.AC57A209A5@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2019-09-05 12:31 ` 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-05 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-08 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-09 8:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-10 12:51 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-11 20:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-12 9:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-16 15:56 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-09-16 17:46 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-27 14:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-28 21:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-29 7:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-29 13:24 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-29 13:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 7:53 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-02 13:27 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 15:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-02 15:20 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 15:59 ` btrfs and Guix features [was: gnu: next: Compress the executable.] Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-02 16:31 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-02 17:48 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-10-02 18:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-08 4:41 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-08 7:44 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-09 1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-03 7:09 ` 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable Efraim Flashner
2019-10-03 18:28 ` Bengt Richter
2019-10-04 8:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-08 7:05 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-08 7:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-10-09 1:50 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-10-09 8:05 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-27 15:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-02-27 15:48 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-03 5:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-03 9:43 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-11 2:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-26 8:38 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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