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different fixed-output when using ’--with-source’ transformation

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From: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, zimoun
 <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50597 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50597: different fixed-output when using
 ’--with-source’ transformation
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:35:12 +0200

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Ludovic Courtès schreef op za 18-09-2021 om 18:06 [+0200]:
> Hello!
> 
> zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > Why the store item of source tarball is it different when applying the
> > transformation?
> > 
> > Maxime provided a clue [1].
> 
> Maxime is right: ‘--with-source’ passes #:recursive? #t unconditionally,
> whereas it’s usually #f for a ‘url-fetch’ kind of URI.
> 
> What we could do is make it #t if and only if the URL denotes a local
> file and that file is a directory.  I think that would achieve what you
> want without any observable regression in practice.
>
> WDYT?

This seems reasonable to me.

Greetings,
Maxime.

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