Hi! Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@reproducible-builds.org> skribis:
> What about an argument to "guix challenge" that handles the downloading > and unpacking to a temporary directory, and possibly another that also > runs a comparison tool against the results. Maybe something like: > > $ guix challenge --download-differences > /tmp/git-XXXXX/SUBSTITTE-X/...-git-2.5.0 > /tmp/git-XXXXX/SUBSTITUTE-Y/...-git-2.5.0 > /gnu/store/...-git-2.5.0 > > Downloads and unpacks the substitutes, and outputs the resulting > directories. > > > $ guix challenge --download-differences --compare-with="diffoscope ..." > > This would do the above, plus run diffoscope on the directories > ... though I think diffoscope can only compare between two things at a > time... so that might get difficult if many substitutes return results. Sounds like a good idea. Perhaps ‘--compare-with’ is actually enough (it would also download things), dunno. Ludo’.
