On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 14:21, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 08:14:43PM +0100, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: >> How does one calculate the hash for a package one wants to add to GNU Guix? >> >> I know 2 ways, giving me different results. One is for the repository folder >> and >> one is for the tarball: >> >> ~~~~ >> guix hash --exclude-vcs --recursive . >> guix hash PACKAGE-VERSION-tar.gz # a tarball created by guile-hall > > Can you clarify your question? > > It seems to me that you already know the answer: You use the method that > is appropriate for your package. It depends on what kind of source code > your packages uses.
Concretely, url-fetch guix hash PACKAGE-VERSION-tar.gz or git-fetch (or other vcs): guix hash . Maybe the question could be clarified. :-) Cheers, simon
