GNU bug report logs - #69328
[PATCH 00/12] Better source code recovery from SWH

Previous Next

Full log

Message #103 received at 69328-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>, Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>,
 Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>,
 69328-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>,
 Christopher Baines <guix <at> cbaines.net>
Subject: Re: [bug#69328] [PATCH v2 00/12] Better source code recovery from SWH
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 19:51:19 +0100

Hello,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> On mar., 05 mars 2024 at 12:06, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès (12):
>>   lint: Switch to SRFI-71.
>>   lint: archival: Fix crash in non-Git case.
>>   lint: archival: Trigger “Save Code Now” for VCSes other than Git.
>>   swh: Add ‘type’ field to <visit>.
>>   swh: ‘origin-visits’ takes an optional ‘max’ parameter.
>>   swh: ‘lookup-origin-revision’ handles branches pointing to
>>     directories.
>>   hg-download: Use ‘swh-download-directory-by-nar-hash’.
>>   svn-download: Use ‘swh-download-directory-by-nar-hash’.
>>   bzr-download: Implement nar fallback.
>>   download-nar: Distinguish ‘output’ and ‘item’ parameter.
>>   perform-download: Allow use of ‘download-nar’ for ‘--check’ builds.
>>   download: Honor ‘GUIX_DOWNLOAD_METHODS’ environment variable.
>
> LGTM.

Pushed as 2f441fc738976175d438f7942211b1894e2eb416, thank you & Timothy
for taking a look!

I’ll update the ‘guix’ package in the coming days so we can benefit from
all of this.

> Unrelated things for later. :-) 
>
> 1. About CVS, IIRC, there is only one package: gnu-standards.  And it
> changes barely.  Why not fetch from FTP or else instead of CVS?

Good idea (or maybe someday someone will finally migrate it to some
other VCS?).

> 2. About the lookup, currently it is done item per item when it could be
> done several at once – Timothy does that with PoG.  This helps for the
> rate limit.  For instance if one uses “guix lint -c archival -m
> manifest.scm”.
>
> 3. The option ’-m’ for “guix lint” seems missing.
>
> These #2 and #3 would help third-party channels, IMHO.

All good ideas.

> Although, I am slowly working on some “guix swh” extension… but I have
> been distraction by another extension “guix try-out”, then distracted by
> another one “guix cite”.  Well, I need to finish all my homeworks. ;-)

Heh, sounds exciting!

Ludo’.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.