fosslinux <fosslinux@aussies.space> writes: > On 12/29/24 23:38, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> sön 2024-12-29 klockan 21:18 +1100 skrev fosslinux: >>>> Could live-bootstrap start to use git cloning? Maybe we can win >>>> this >>>> particular example, but I suspect the question will come back >>>> again. >>> Without going into our technical structure - yes and no. However, we >>> are actively moving away from dynamically generated >>> tarballs (to making them ourselves from Git clones), not just for >>> gnulib, but for everything where we consume a Git >>> snapshot. We can get past this issue ourselves. However, at this >>> point gnulib effectively has a dependency on git to use >>> -- depends on how you feel about that how problematic that is. >> I'm not really sure I understand everything here -- but my idea is to >> publish a gnulib snapshot on ftp.gnu.org eventually with a 'git >> bundle'. It will contain all previous git commits of the gnulib >> repository. No need for thousands and thousands of different gnulib >> 'git archive' tarballs. Your workflow could be: >> >> wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnulib/gnulib-20250115.bundle >> git clone gnulib-20250115.bundle gnulib >> cd gnulib >> git checkout 2d1c0b2f38c81d1c8eca2f06b39264f5029b97fe >> >> or whatever. It can be used as a --gnulib-refdir or --gnulib-srcdir >> depending on your build flow. >> My plan is to include this bundle into the Debian gnulib package too, >> so eventually this is just: >> >> apt-get install gnulib >> git clone /usr/share/gnulib/gnulib.bundle gnulib >> cd gnulib >> git checkout ... >> >> Is this relevant to what you are doing? > > Ahh, okay; currently, no, this doesn't really help us (not as a > concept, and especially not it existing in Debian). However I think it > is a good idea anyway :) > > We only use a subset of gnulib commits, but we *need* at least some of > those as tarballs. Our problem is how do we get them as tarballs: > previously, we used dynamically generated tarballs; now, we are > exploring different options, most probably making them ourselves using > git archive.
I see. There is a gnulib mirror available where you can get commit-based tarballs from here: wget -nv https://gitlab.com/libidn/gnulib-mirror/-/archive/$GNULIB_REVISION/gnulib-mirror-$GNULIB_REVISION.tar.gz This is neither an official mirror (I operate it) nor a trustworthy way of getting gnulib source code from. I hope that we can publish a git bundle eventually, to offer some form of serialized archival non-https way of getting gnulib, even if that isn't something you can make use of today. Publishing tarballs for every commits seems really wasteful, there must be some better way. /Simon
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