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Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency

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Message #46 received at 63331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org>, 65866 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 63331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 22:57:35 +0200

Hi,

Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu> skribis:

> Le lundi 11 septembre 2023 à 16:36 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit :
>> Eventually, when users are all running recent versions of
>> ‘guix-daemon’ with support for “builtin:git-download” (2–4
>> years from now?), we’ll be able to use “builtin:git-download”
>> unconditionally and thus be sure there are no risks of
>> derivation cycles.
>
> Do foreign distros need to update their guix package as well? If that
> is the case, the provided time frame might be optimistic.

At some point, we can change clients to print a warning saying that
their daemon is outdated if it lacks “builtin:git-download”.  That
should help speed things up.

>> Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git.
>> This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git
>
> I applaud the switch to the regular git program from libgit2, as I
> would then be able to pull from my cgit "dumb" server instead of having
> to maintain a mirror.

Nothing changes here: ‘git-fetch’ already uses Git.

Ludo’.

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