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[PATCH] Don't fix git executable location during Elixir build

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From: Cees de Groot <cg <at> evrl.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 54304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Subject: [bug#54304] [PATCH] Don't fix git executable location during Elixir build
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:01:46 +0000

On Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at 12:59, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:

> This simply Should Not happen. Guix's GC model (inherited from Nix) is brutally simple: if the raw string /gnu/store/xxx occurs anywhere within a protected /gnu/store/yyy (e.g. in a binary), then xxx is also protected, recursively.

So how does Guix figure out what to keep and what not? I mean, in this case the patched string will land in a compiled .BEAM file which very well may have the string obfuscated (I need to check how the VM stores strings in binaries).

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