Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> writes: > Hello Zimoun! > > Ah, I think I get it now: > > If I for example created a tag for the version of my package and creation of > the > tag caused the VCS host to create a tarball as release, I could go the > url-fetch > way and then I would use `guix hash` on the tarball, which is the release > tarball, but if there is no release tarball addressable using a URL, I would > use > the git-fetch way, which means GNU Guix would have to verify the downloaded > repository, so I calculate the hash using the other way.
I personally use guix download https://path/to/tarball. That outputs the hash for me. :) Please note that I have never added or fixed a patch for guix. > > So it all depends on what I specify in my package description, about how GNU > Guix is to retrieve my package. > > Regards, > Zelphir -- Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix) Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels https://propernaming.org "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
