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bug#63331: bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#63331: bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:57:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> skribis:
> Le lundi 11 septembre 2023 à 16:36 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
>> Eventually, when users are all running recent versions of
>> ‘guix-daemon’ with support for “builtin:git-download” (2–4
>> years from now?), we’ll be able to use “builtin:git-download”
>> unconditionally and thus be sure there are no risks of
>> derivation cycles.
>
> Do foreign distros need to update their guix package as well? If that
> is the case, the provided time frame might be optimistic.
At some point, we can change clients to print a warning saying that
their daemon is outdated if it lacks “builtin:git-download”. That
should help speed things up.
>> Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git.
>> This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git
>
> I applaud the switch to the regular git program from libgit2, as I
> would then be able to pull from my cgit "dumb" server instead of having
> to maintain a mirror.
Nothing changes here: ‘git-fetch’ already uses Git.
Ludo’.