On 2025-02-15, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2025-02-11, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> We discussed the next release during Guix Days and I volunteered to lead >> the effort. ... > I may just make an attempt at making a git snapshot or something, which > I did once in the distant past... any recommendations on a particular > commit to aim at? Even an alpha or release candidate or whatever tag > would be nice...
So, in order to try this, the first thing I needed to do was remember how to run "make dist" to generate the tarball... Basically from a clean git checkout: guix git tag v1.4.0+XYZ HEAD # I used f7cd085f4a36e118aa05af5524e74830a30b3dca guix git authenticate && \ guix shell --container --pure --development guix guix git imagemagick perl graphviz less -- ./bootstrap && \ guix shell --container --pure --development guix guix git imagemagick perl graphviz less -- ./configure && \ guix shell --container --pure --development guix guix git imagemagick perl graphviz less -- make -j1 dist Not sure if that is the "right" way or if there is better documentation... ? Running "make -j5 dist" failed in various ways... so there are probably some undefined dependencies. graphviz was needed otherwise the bootstrap-graph.pdf failed to build (graphviz-minimal gets pulled in by "--development guix" but does not support .pdf generation). The other inputs, well, they're just from the last times I tried running "make dist"! maybe they are no longer needed, maybe the are! The generated tarball also appears to be missing a few files, some of which seem fine (e.g. .gitignore) but some which actually cause problems (e.g. missing po4a.cfg, tests/*.scm, gnu/patches/*.patch), some of which probably should be added to dist_patch_DATA in gnu/local.mk or other relevent values: Only in ../guix-master/build-aux: cuirass Only in ../guix-master/build-aux: gitlog-to-changelog Only in ../guix-master: .editorconfig Only in ../guix-master/etc: copyright.el Only in ../guix-master/etc: git Only in ../guix-master/etc: snippets Only in ../guix-master/etc: teams Only in ../guix-master/etc: teams.scm Only in ../guix-master: .gitattributes Only in ../guix-master: .gitignore Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: cyrus-sasl-ac-try-run-fix.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: gcc-10-tree-sra-union-handling.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: gegl-compatibility-old-librsvg.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: go-github-com-skip2-go-qrcode-fix-tests.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: librewolf-neuter-locale-download.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: openjdk-15-jtask-reproducibility.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: python-pytorch-for-r-torch-fix-codegen.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: python-pytorch-for-r-torch-system-libraries.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: rdkit-unbundle-external-dependencies.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/packages/patches: tinydir-fix-cbehave-test.patch Only in ../guix-master/gnu/system/examples: bare-hurd64.tmpl Only in ../guix-master/gnu/system/examples: devel-hurd64.tmpl Only in ../guix-master/gnu/system/examples: devel-hurd.tmpl Only in ../guix-master/gnu/tests: lightdm.scm Only in ../guix-master/gnu/tests: sddm.scm Only in ../guix-master: .mailmap Only in ../guix-master: .mumi Only in ../guix-master/nix: .gitignore Only in ../guix-master/nix/libstore: .gitignore Only in ../guix-master: .patman Only in ../guix-master/po/doc: po4a.cfg Only in ../guix-master/tests: hexpm.scm Only in ../guix-master/tests: ipfs.scm I also fixed a bunch of typos, spelling, grammar, etc. that my workflow building Guix in Debian detects in various package synopsis/descriptions, and seem to have inspired others to do the same! :) In this process I also found a bug that caused "make dist" to fail due to embedded store paths, and pushed a fix to guix.git as 0626f567378cf549fd097f3c3372fa498000a8a3. Also, in reviewing the copyright and license headers while packaging for Debian, this raised a broader question about translating license headers in files such as doc/guix.de.info: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/guix/-/blob/debian/latest/doc/guix.de.info#L93 With my limited german, it is clearly a header to declare the file is released under the GFDL in some form, but I wonder if that is a good idea to translate the license headers ... as at least in the US, in order to ship that file I would maybe need to at least consult with a lawyer (the US only recognizes English for legal documents), and I suspect various other countries might need something similar for arbitrary languages... having to get a lawyer involved kind of kills the joy of free software and the goal of free distribution... This of course touches on some awful issues around language imperialism. :/ live well, vagrant
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