GNU bug report logs - #36544
'set-paths' should exclude 'source' from consideration

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 23:27:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <marius <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 36544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Aiko Kyle <aikokyle <at> gmail.com>
To: 36544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36544: 'set-paths' should exclude 'source' from consideration
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 22:51:22 -0600

> > To avoid this unexpected sensitivity on the source origin 
> > method, I
> > suggest that we explicitly exclude 'source' from consideration 
> > within
> > the 'set-paths' phase.  What do you think?
> 
> I agree.  We should do that in the next ‘core-updates’.

I recently ran into this bug myself and was surprised that there 
would be a difference between building from a tarball and a git 
checkout. It seems the fix should be fairly straight forward so 
are there any plans to implement it?

Thanks,
Aiko
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