GNU bug report logs - #66268
Guix makes invalid assumptions regarding guile-git guarantees leading to guix pull failing

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:54:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: wolf <wolf <at> wolfsden.cz>
Cc: Jack Hill <jackhill <at> jackhill.us>, 66268 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66268: Guix makes invalid assumptions regarding guile-git guarantees leading to guix pull failing
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:42:39 +0200

Hi Tomas,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

>   2. Since Guile-Git has been pretending to provide that eq?-ness
>      guarantee, I’m tempted to fix the problem in Guile-Git, by having a
>      per-repository lookup table (a weak-value hash table mapping OIDs
>      to commits).

I gave it a try: see Guile-Git commit
cd91dc908ac4b215bc87a97455ff64ed4d89b721.

If it works for you, we can tag a Guile-Git release soonish.

Thanks,
Ludo’.
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