Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> writes:

> Here are two small patches.
>
> The first one add #:substitutable? to the copy-build system.
>
> I don't know how to check if it works as intended though. It's
> similar to the commit d0050ea8ad1c32d94cf5ba6725a0fc961bb23f38
> ("build-system/go: Add #:substitutable? argument.") so normally
> it shouldn't be an issue, but if someone can double check it it
> would be best as it would avoid keeping around substitutes of
> very big sizes.
>
> The second patch adds a ZIM file. I'll most likely send more
> patches to add additional ZIM files packages (about 10) later
> on. I prefer doing it this way as it avoids having to deal with
> potential rebases breaking if there is something wrong with my
> second patch.
>
> Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli (2):
>   build-system/copy: Add #:substitutable? argument.
>   gnu: Add wikipedia_en_all_maxi

I haven't looked at this in detail, but one comment on the QA
failures. Building the package for this large file involves copying it
from the store, to another place in the store. This requires 2x the
space which this large file takes up, which is a pretty wasteful
approach.

This is the reason behind the build failures I've seen, the build
machines run out of space when attempting the file copy. Maybe an
alternative if you want to have a package would be to symlink to the
source. That way, there's only a large file and a symlink in the store,
rather than two copies of the same large file.

Chris