Subject: [bug#37412] [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add guix-data-service.

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 11:18:35 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Good morning, Chris!
>
> Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/web.scm (guix-data-service): New variable.
>
> Woohoo!  \o/
>
>> +      (inputs
>> +       `(("guile" ,guile-2.2)
>
> Guile should be ‘native-inputs’ because we use it for its compiler
> (which can act as a “cross-compiler” with ‘--target’).

This makes sense, but the scripts will still refer to the guile used to
build the package, so building for a different architecture won't work
right? Does the package somehow need to take as input two Guiles, one
for build time, and one for runtime?

>> +      (native-search-paths
>> +       ;; guile-git requires this to be set
>> +       (list (search-path-specification
>> +              (variable "GIT_SSL_CAINFO")
>> +              (file-type 'regular)
>> +              (separator #f)
>> +              (files '("etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt")))))
>
> It’s a bit of a workaround for
> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22138>, isn’t it?  :-)
>
> What about either removing it, or adding an “XXX” to the comment?

I can't quite remember, I think I added that a long while ago when
trying to get the Guix service working. I'm not sure it's a great
approach. I'll add XXX to the comment though.