Re: [PATCH 0/5] python2-variants

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue,  9 Feb 2016 03:10:58 -0500
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:

> These patches apply the new python2-variant system introduced in
> 1be83341 to python2-{cryptography, jsonschema, wheel, requests}, and
> then split acme into python-acme and python2-acme.
> 
> As usual, I tested the changes to acme / letsencrypt by renewing the
> certificates of my webserver [0].
> 
> I'm not 100% confident in the style of these changes, or in the
> selection of packages I updated, aside from this being the minimum
> number of packages to update in order to split acme in two. But it seems
> that it's not necessary to update the full graph of packages touched by
> these changes.
> 
> Feedback?
> 
> [0]
> It turns out that my server can't build python2-cryptography from
> source. I guess that 1 GB RAM is not enough. So I learned how to use
> `guix archive` :)

I've never had to use guix archive. Is it something where having more swap
would've helped?

> 
> Leo Famulari (5):
>   gnu: python-cryptography: Define 'python2-variant'.
>   gnu: python-jsonschema: Define 'python2-variant'.
>   gnu: python-wheel: Define 'python2-variant'.
>   gnu: python-requests: Define 'python2-variant'.
>   gnu: Split acme into python-acme and python2-acme.
> 
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 47 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  gnu/packages/tls.scm    | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  2 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
> 



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