[bug#63263] [PATCH] gexp: Stop generating unreadable builder scripts.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> I guess my perspective on this is more from the operation of the guix
>>> data service, which is carefully computing and storing all of these
>>> broken derivations (and there's a lot, like 10,000+ per revision at the
>>> moment, since they change every time you compute them).
>>
>> Woow, that’s a lot!  Could you send a sample of that list, for one
>> system type, to get an idea of what’s going on?
>
> I think pretty much all the i586-gnu derivations

Oh, I see.  I’m less surprised then.  :-)

> were broken in this way, on core-updates but then after the merge to
> master too. I think I've "fixed" it now, although I think my change
> [1] needs some improvement (I fixed some issues in [2], but I saw an
> error when cross building).

I think we’re good now, right?

Ludo’.