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Re: Fetching patches as origins instead of copying them into the Guix Gi
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: Fetching patches as origins instead of copying them into the Guix Git repo |
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Fri, 1 Sep 2017 15:50:23 -0400 |
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 11:52:25PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
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> > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:52:49PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> >> Side note: I think we should start adding patches as origins instead of
> >> copying them wholesale, to try and keep the git repository slim.
> >
> > We should make a git-minimal package for things like this, or use
> > guile-git / libgit2. Git itself is a very "heavy" package.
>
> No, I mean adding patches like this:
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> (define %CVE-1970-0001.patch
> (origin
> (method url-fetch)
> (uri "https://example.com/CVE-2017-0001.patch";)
> (sha256
> (base32
> "12c60iwxyc3rj6ih06a1g80vmkf8khvhm44xr9va4h21b74v8f5k"))))
>
> (package
> (...
> (patches (list (search-patch "guix-specific-stuff.patch")
> %CVE-1970-0001.patch)))
>
> That only requires the built-in guix downloader.
Ah, that's much better than what I was thinking.
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