Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> skribis:
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 12:12:54AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The samples wouldn’t really have to be “packaged”: they’d just be an
>> input. For someone using substitutes, the samples are not going to be a
>> problem (because they’ll never be downloaded.) However, it is indeed a
>> problem when building things locally.
>
> Well, so far the only way I have been told to get them is via rsync.
> So one might need to create a .tar(.gz?) from the download.
Not necessarily. It could fetch the directory as is. There could be an
‘rsync-fetch’ method for <origin>, just like we have ‘url-fetch’. (A
little bit of work, but that seems doable, if we want to.)
> And in any case, an input means a package variable, no?
I would rather make it an <origin> (assuming there’s a way to get at an
immutable version of those samples), and it doesn’t need to be bound a
variable:
(define ffmpeg
(package
...
(inputs `(("samples" ,(origin
(method rsync-fetch)
...))))))
Back to the problem at hand: the short-term answer is to add
#:tests? #f with a link to this discussion. The longer term answer
may be to try to run those FATE tests.
WDYT?
Ludo’.
