Rutherther <[email protected]> writes: > This is solved in the Guix System installer by bumping the guix package > and making the system from commit that bumped it to 1.5.0rc1 rather than > from commit tagged as 1.5.0rc1 directly. But on foreign distros, you're > right it will end up like this. It's always better to first pull. > > This was the same case with 1.4.0. Maybe we could try doing something > about it if it's unexpected for users, but I don't know what. The only > possibility that comes to my mind to solve this would be to solve it > similarly to the Guix System installer. We would distribute the binary > tarballs with guix package from commit that has the package bumped. That > would mean the tarballs aren't made from the tagged release commit > itself, though. However, that would mean that `guix --version` would > tell you it's something like `1.5.0rc1-1.<part of hash>` and that seems > unexpected to me.
I think the 'v1.5.0rc1' tag should be for when that version of guix is made available. That is, I think the tag should have been on commit d339785a0fbd8f13930082a4fa7a73b6685630fd rather than 2d4ed08662714ea46cfe0b41ca195d1ef845fd1b -- compare info from 'git log --format=oneline': d339785a0fbd8f13930082a4fa7a73b6685630fd (origin/version-1.5.0, version-1.5.0) g nu: guix: Update to 1.5.0rc1. ... 2d4ed08662714ea46cfe0b41ca195d1ef845fd1b (tag: v1.5.0rc1) etc: release: Switch to Guile declaration of artifacts. Yes this is different from what has been done traditionally, so disagreeing with my suggestion is fine. What purpose does a git tag on 2d4ed08662714ea46cfe0b41ca195d1ef845fd1b serve? Is it consumed by anything? Other than the human doing the d339785a0fbd8f13930082a4fa7a73b6685630fd commit? If the tag on the first commit really is useful, how about a two-stage release process like this: 1) 'git tag -s -m foo v1.5.0rc1-guix' - similar to the tag on 2d4ed08662714ea46cfe0b41ca195d1ef845fd1b. Or make the tag namespace-separated as 'guix/v1.5.0rc1'? 2) Merge the guix update as done in commit d339785a0fbd8f13930082a4fa7a73b6685630fd and tag that as 'git tag -s -m bar v1.5.0rc1'. Does this break anything? /Simon
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