Re: Fetching patches as origins instead of copying them into the Guix Git repo

[Marius Bakke]

Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 09:52:49PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> Side note: I think we should start adding patches as origins instead of
>> copying them wholesale, to try and keep the git repository slim.
>
> We should make a git-minimal package for things like this, or use
> guile-git / libgit2. Git itself is a very "heavy" package.

No, I mean adding patches like this:

(define %CVE-1970-0001.patch
  (origin
    (method url-fetch)
    (uri "https://example.com/CVE-2017-0001.patch";)
    (sha256
     (base32
      "12c60iwxyc3rj6ih06a1g80vmkf8khvhm44xr9va4h21b74v8f5k"))))

(package
 (...
  (patches (list (search-patch "guix-specific-stuff.patch")
                 %CVE-1970-0001.patch)))

That only requires the built-in guix downloader.

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