Hi, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <gnu...@cyberdimension.org> skribis:
> If we replace with something like that: >> (define-public git-minimal >> (package >> (name "git-minimal") >> (version "2.46.0") >> (source >> (origin >> (method git-fetch) >> (uri >> (git-reference >> (url "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git";)) >> (commit "<some hash>"))) >> (file-name (git-file-name name version)) >> (sha256 >> (base32 >> "15bzq9m6c033qiz5q5gw1nqw4m452vvqax30wbms6z4bl9i384kz")))) >> [...] > > Then we have at least 2 issues. > > The first one is that we might end up with circular dependencies inside > the Guix source code somehow that creates issues when building packages > and/or guix, etc. But that might be fixable with some work. There’s no circular dependency *if* the daemon is recent enough and supports the ‘git-download’ derivation builder. See <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65866> for context. HTH, Ludo’.
