GNU bug report logs - #30113
SVN checkouts without descriptive file names

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From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 30113 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: bug#30113: SVN checkouts without descriptive file names
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:28:27 +0100

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Here is the lint log, it did not run to completion, it has an error at the
end.

2018-01-14 18:43 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>:

> Ok, I started a guix lint on 0.14.0.1183-1b321.
> Will attach log here asap.
>
>
> 2018-01-14 17:53 GMT+01:00 Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>:
>
>> On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:43:27 +0100
>> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:
>>
>> > Gábor Boskovits wrote on 14/01/18 at 17:13:
>> > > Maybe we could use guix to check for these, and some
>> > > other things could also be spotted.
>> > > WDYT?
>> >
>> > Agreed, I think.
>>
>> Yeah, +1
>>
>> > We should be able to improve the quality of these guesses: the
>> > repository URI is about as likely to be foo://bar/<package>... as a
>> > regular tarball URI.
>> >
>> > Or we make a file-name mandatory for certain methods.
>>
>> I agree that some heuristics to figure out the file-name from
>> (svn-reference-url ref) would be nice.
>>
>> It's not that important that the store filenames are meaningful to
>> humans, it's just nice-to-have.  So I'd say heuristic it and be done with
>> it.
>>
>> On second thought, maybe even default file-name to the Guix package name
>> (if possible at this point in Guix).  The hash value will make it unique
>> regardless (for example if there are multiple svn-download blocks in the
>> same package)
>>
>
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