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Re: Git repos with large submodules
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Marius Bakke |
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Re: Git repos with large submodules |
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Sat, 30 May 2020 23:28:08 +0200 |
raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
> Hey all!
>
> So, I recently gave a go to packaging EDK2 on my channel, and found out
> that it requires several submodules, including OpenSSL, which take up
> quite a bit of space and take way longer to download than necessary.
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> Since I couldn't find a way to shallow-init the submodules, I added
> them as separate origins and copied / symlinked them after the unpack
> phase.
That sounds like a decent workaround. Even better to symlink
(package-source openssl) to use the OpenSSL sources from Guix.
The ideal solution would of course be to provide OpenSSL as a regular
input and make the build system use it, but that's not always feasible.
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