Subject: Re: [bug#56852] [PATCH] gnu: Add exult.

From: "(" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:52:30 +0100

Hello!

On Sun Jul 31, 2022 at 11:46 AM BST, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via wrote:
> +     (origin
> +       ;; The release tarball isn't bootstrapped, and Git is more robust (SWH).
> +       (method git-fetch)
> +       (uri (git-reference
> +             (url "https://github.com/exult/exult")
> +             (commit (string-append "v" version))))
> +       (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> +       (sha256
> +        (base32 "1qfbkz05w8989vafc6dvw1wmdi1mvkr4kkgk3ccixadf4616kcb3"))))
I don't think it's really necessary to justify the use of Git here, since Git
is preferred over tarballs anyway.

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