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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: 63331@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>,
	Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu>
Subject: bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 19:20:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877ctljs0m.fsf@inria.fr> (raw)

Hi,

‘git-download’ needs to depend on guile-gnutls to implement its fallback
mechanism (downloading from mirrors or from SWH over HTTPS).  Commit
c625e5b64d0a6cb7ffbf2ef971d4c990b1f5c5c1 restored this.  However, it
also introduced a circular dependency: the origin of guile-gnutls relies
on 'git-download', which would now depend on guile-gnutls.  Thus, I
reverted it right away.

We need to solve that.  For now, the only fix I can think of is having
‘guile-gnutls’ built from a “make dist”-provided tarballs.  Apparently
we can add assets at <https://gitlab.com/gnutls/guile/-/tags>; would you
like to upload a tarball and accompanying signature, Simon?

Unfortunately, that means doing away with all the packaging work by
Vivien, in particular proper bootstrapping with Gnulib.

The longer-term solution is to add a “builtin:git-download” derivation
builder, just like we have “builtin:download”.  The implementation
should be relatively easy, but we’ll have to be able to deal with
daemons that lack this builtin possibly for several years.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.




             reply	other threads:[~2023-05-06 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-06 17:20 Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-05-06 20:07 ` bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency Vivien Kraus via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-06 20:17   ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-25 14:03     ` Simon Tournier
2023-05-07  8:54 ` Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-08 13:57 ` Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-09 11:15   ` Christopher Baines
2023-05-09 12:23     ` Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-09 15:19       ` Vivien Kraus via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2023-05-10 15:37     ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-10 15:59       ` Christopher Baines
2023-05-11 10:38         ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-09-11 14:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
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     ` [bug#65866] [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts Ludovic Courtès
2023-10-12 14:44   ` bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency Ludovic Courtès

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