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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
Cc: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>,
	 guix-devel@gnu.org,  Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu>
Subject: Re: Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:02:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87cyiyoz83.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241006005747.06a16840@primary_laptop> (Denis Carikli's message of "Sun, 6 Oct 2024 00:57:47 +0200")

Hi,

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

> If we replace with something like that:
>> (define-public git-minimal
>>   (package
>>     (name "git-minimal")
>>     (version "2.46.0")
>>     (source
>>       (origin
>>         (method git-fetch)
>>         (uri 
>>           (git-reference
>>             (url "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git"))
>>             (commit "<some hash>")))
>>         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
>>         (sha256
>>           (base32
>>             "15bzq9m6c033qiz5q5gw1nqw4m452vvqax30wbms6z4bl9i384kz"))))
>> [...]
>
> Then we have at least 2 issues.
>
> The first one is that we might end up with circular dependencies inside
> the Guix source code somehow that creates issues when building packages
> and/or guix, etc. But that might be fixable with some work.

There’s no circular dependency *if* the daemon is recent enough and
supports the ‘git-download’ derivation builder.  See
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65866> for context.

HTH,
Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-14 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-29 17:52 Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git Vivien Kraus
2024-09-30 21:43 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-10-01 10:20   ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2024-10-05 22:57     ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2024-11-14 11:02       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-10-06  7:50 ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen

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