bug#47336: Disarchive as a fallback for downloads

[Timothy Sample]

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com> skribis:
>
>> And broke “guix pull”!!  (I somehow fooled myself into thinking that I
>> had already tested with “guix pull --url=...” locally.)  I reverted the
>> offending commit.
>
> You can test with ‘guix pull’ (you need to make sure to specify the
> right file:// URL *and* branch), or you can run “make as-derivation”.

I will definitely be more careful with this in the future.

>> [...]  Does this approach look okay?
>
> That’s one possibility.
>
> The patch below takes another approach.  I think it aesthetically
> slightly more pleasant because we don’t have to play ‘resolve-module’
> tricks for obscure reasons.  WDYT?

This is exactly what I was hoping for, but I couldn’t quite connect all
the dots in “build-self.scm”.  Thanks!

> (It also fixes a format string argument mismatch.)

Good catch!

I’ve pushed the updated patch and am closing the issue.  :)


-- Tim