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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’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-16 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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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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