Vivien Kraus writes:
Hi Vivien,
> I could not fully recover the release source (I am not attempting bit-
> reproducibility) because:
> — the translations were lost;
> — the ChangeLog was lost;
> — the manual revision date was lost;
> — guix’ patched shebangs leaked in the sources.
>
> This is a m
On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:20:54 +
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> >Since Guix also checks the hash of the source code an idea to improve
> >things could also be to modify Guix to allow the use of external
> >tools to bootstrap the download of source code through version
> >control and for instance
Hi Denis,
On 30 September 2024 21:43:06 UTC, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
wrote:
> what is Guix policy with
>regard to source code when there are multiple providers (typically git
>vs tarball)?
There's never been an explicit policy as far as I'm aware.
In the past decade the consensus has shifted fr
Hi,
On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:52:13 +0200
Vivien Kraus wrote:
> GNU sources are usually shipped as tarballs with some pre-compiled
> sources included. This can be a bit scary at times, so the question
> now is, can we skip the tarballs and build everything from
> human-authored sources?
In some cas
Dear Guix,
GNU sources are usually shipped as tarballs with some pre-compiled
sources included. This can be a bit scary at times, so the question now
is, can we skip the tarballs and build everything from human-authored
sources?
I first want to emphasize that distributing generated sources is an
