01/02: gnu: libssh: Fetch the source code more efficiently.

[Ludovic Courtès]

civodul pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 12995856e2fe31dfbc5cf97aa0d2c6c128aa7c81
Author: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Oct 22 13:00:55 2018 -0400

    gnu: libssh: Fetch the source code more efficiently.
    
    * gnu/packages/ssh.scm (libssh)[source]: Use the git:// protocol.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
---
 gnu/packages/ssh.scm | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index e806fc8..b93cb03 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -71,8 +71,14 @@
     (source (origin
               (method git-fetch)
               (uri (git-reference
-                    (url "https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git";)
-                    (commit (string-append "libssh-" version))))
+                     ;; git.libssh.org does not support the fast "smart" HTTP
+                     ;; Git protocol. The "dumb" HTTP Git protocol is extremely
+                     ;; slow, and does not support shallow clones, so we use 
the
+                     ;; plain Git protocol despite its flaws. This offers an
+                     ;; incredible speedup and reduces the size of the the
+                     ;; source by more than half.
+                     (url "git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git")
+                     (commit (string-append "libssh-" version))))
               (patches (search-patches "libssh-hostname-parser-bug.patch"))
               (sha256
                (base32