Re: Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org> skribis:

> If we replace with something like that:
>> (define-public git-minimal
>>   (package
>>     (name "git-minimal")
>>     (version "2.46.0")
>>     (source
>>       (origin
>>         (method git-fetch)
>>         (uri 
>>           (git-reference
>>             (url "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git";))
>>             (commit "<some hash>")))
>>         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
>>         (sha256
>>           (base32
>>             "15bzq9m6c033qiz5q5gw1nqw4m452vvqax30wbms6z4bl9i384kz"))))
>> [...]
>
> Then we have at least 2 issues.
>
> The first one is that we might end up with circular dependencies inside
> the Guix source code somehow that creates issues when building packages
> and/or guix, etc. But that might be fixable with some work.

There’s no circular dependency *if* the daemon is recent enough and
supports the ‘git-download’ derivation builder.  See
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65866> for context.

HTH,
Ludo’.