Hi, Cayetano Santos <csant...@inventati.org> writes:
> Hi Guix, > > Most of the time, this kind of command > > ./pre-inst-env guix lint PKG > > returns > > source not archived on Software Heritage and missing from the > Disarchive database > > see for example "mupdf". To my understanding, this is due to the > ‘url-fetch’ method used to fetch sources from a .tar.gz archive. > > Is it preferable to switch to ‘git-fetch’ instead ? In my experience, > having sw backed up in sw heritage is a very good reason to git clone > code instead of downloading compressed files, unless the .tar.gz > includes any other benefit. Put otherwise, ‘git-fetch’ should be the > default, except if there is a good reason not to. SW is supposed to have support to ingest tarballs as far as I remember, so there shouldn't be an advantage to one over the other in this regard. -- Thanks, Maxim
