Hello!

Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> skribis:

>> And, there’s some good news!  I hear fellow hackers have been working on
>> this thing called BLUE, which could address our tarball problem as well!
>> That is, once Guix uses BLUE as its build system, ‘make dist’ is
>> effectively gone,
>
> Well, "someone" actually contributed some patches to BLUE *), making sure
> that `make dist' would produce a reproducible source tarball ootb ;)
>
> Possibly BLUE should support a `make git-dist' or something; but as a
> generic build system you'd probably not want have a hard dependency on
> git?  Dunno...

[...]

> *) https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue/pulls/251
>    https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue/pulls/258

Nice!  I’m looking at ‘tarball.scm’ and it’s not entirely clear what
‘inputs’ contains: can it be more than just the list of source files
(checked in)?  I would expect no?

Put differently, when would one ask BLUE to create a tarball instead of
using ‘git archive’?

Thanks,
Ludo’, slowly sliding off-topic. :-)

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