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Include curl/wget (and git?) to the installation image

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Message #31 received at 45326-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 45326-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45326: Include curl/wget (and git?) to the installation image
Date: Fri, 07 May 2021 23:47:11 -0400

Hello,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Apologies if this has been asked before, but would it be possible to
> include one of curl or wget in the installation image?
>
> It's particularly convenient to fetch authorization keys, channel specs and
> the like before installing a system.
>
> Additionally, including git (maybe git minimal?) would be great so
> synchronize Git repositories which may contain installation scripts,
> Guix configs and other dotfiles.
>
> Thoughts?

I've added wget to the %base-networking-packages list, which means it'll
be part of any Guix System starting with v1.3.0.

For git-minimal, after discussing it on IRC, it seems reasonable to
expect savvy users to be able to 'guix install git' from the
installation environment.

Closing.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Maxim

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