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#35621
Simplify comparing guix challenge results
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Hi!
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> reproducible-builds.org> skribis:
> What about an argument to "guix challenge" that handles the downloading
> and unpacking to a temporary directory, and possibly another that also
> runs a comparison tool against the results. Maybe something like:
>
> $ guix challenge --download-differences
> /tmp/git-XXXXX/SUBSTITTE-X/...-git-2.5.0
> /tmp/git-XXXXX/SUBSTITUTE-Y/...-git-2.5.0
> /gnu/store/...-git-2.5.0
>
> Downloads and unpacks the substitutes, and outputs the resulting
> directories.
>
>
> $ guix challenge --download-differences --compare-with="diffoscope ..."
>
> This would do the above, plus run diffoscope on the directories
> ... though I think diffoscope can only compare between two things at a
> time... so that might get difficult if many substitutes return results.
Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps ‘--compare-with’ is actually enough
(it would also download things), dunno.
Ludo’.
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