Subject: [bug#65866] bug#63331: Guile-GnuTLS/Git circular dependency and built-in git checkouts

From: Vivien Kraus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:16:14 +0200

Hello!

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.

> 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.

Vivien