Hi Rovanion, Am Donnerstag, den 31.12.2020, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Rovanion Luckey: > [...] > > > Use git-fetch instead and don't recurse into submodules. You will > > likely encounter some errors, because it doesn't seem as though > > nomacs > > expects you to have its inputs properly packages. *sigh* > > Hmm, this one I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind. I think > I read in some packaging guidelines that url-fetch was preferred if > possible. The reason is two-fold: First, it seems to me, that this is a github- generated tarball, which have been known to be unstable. Second, the tarball includes a large number of 3rd party sources already packaged in Guix. Most of them are git submodules, so by using a non-recursive checkout you can strip them without much effort.
url-fetch is to be preferred, when there is a sane tarball to fetch. Most projects only hosted on github don't have that, but certain large- scale projects (such as GNU itself or GNOME) do host tarballs. It also enables mirror:// URLS, which translate to a number of hosts, the first of which to successfully provide a package is chosen. > > Instead of adding the path to the source directory, try `(cd > > "ImageLounge")` in a phase after 'unpack. > > > > I'm told that cd is an unbound variable when I try that :/ My bad, the Scheme procedure equivalent to cd is "chdir". Regards, Leo
