Hi, Vivien Kraus <[email protected]> skribis:
> Le lundi 11 septembre 2023 à 16:36 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : >> Eventually, when users are all running recent versions of >> ‘guix-daemon’ with support for “builtin:git-download” (2–4 >> years from now?), we’ll be able to use “builtin:git-download” >> unconditionally and thus be sure there are no risks of >> derivation cycles. > > Do foreign distros need to update their guix package as well? If that > is the case, the provided time frame might be optimistic. At some point, we can change clients to print a warning saying that their daemon is outdated if it lacks “builtin:git-download”. That should help speed things up. >> Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git. >> This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git > > I applaud the switch to the regular git program from libgit2, as I > would then be able to pull from my cgit "dumb" server instead of having > to maintain a mirror. Nothing changes here: ‘git-fetch’ already uses Git. Ludo’.
