2017-02-21 23:17 GMT+01:00 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>:

> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 12:19:35AM +0300, Dmitry Nikolaev wrote:
> > When writing package definition, what if I download sources from git
> > repository? For example:
> >
> > (define-public libwebsockets
> >   (package
> >     (name "libwebsockets")
> >     (version "1.3")
> >     (source (origin
> >               ;; The project does not publish tarballs, so we have to
> take
> >               ;; things from Git.
> >               (method git-fetch)
> >               (uri (git-reference
> >                     (url "git://git.libwebsockets.org/libwebsockets")
> >                     (commit (string-append "v" version
> >                                            "-chrome37-firefox30"))))
> >               (sha256
> >                (base32
> >                 "12fqh2d2098mgf0ls19p9lzibpsqhv7mc5rn1yvrbfnazmcr40g4"))
> >               (file-name (string-append name "-" version))))
> > ...
> >
> > How do I calculate this 12fqh2d...?
>
> Clone the Git repository in the normal way, check out the Git commit you
> want to base the Guix package on, and then do this:
>
> $ guix hash --recursive --exclude-vcs path/to/git-repo
>
> This is explained in the manual, section Invoking guix hash:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-guix-hash.html
>
>

I apologize for the off the mark suggestion

I thought it was just lame, I didn't consider it had even more shortcomings