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Re: Use guix to verify that code changes do not affect binary?


From: Julien Lepiller
Subject: Re: Use guix to verify that code changes do not affect binary?
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 09:11:00 -0400
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The only idea that comes to mind is to compare with something like that:

guix hash -r `guix build foo-devel`

Maybe others will have more brilliant ideas :)

On 2020年8月6日 2:41:07 GMT-04:00, elaexuotee@wilsonb.com wrote:
>Hello Guix,
>
>I am hacking on the build scripts of an existing project and need to
>make sure
>that my changes do not affect the actual build products.
>
>Is there a good way to leverage guix for this?
>
>Previously, I had been doing this manually by (deterministically)
>tarring up
>the build products and comparing hashes; however, this is a bit prone
>to
>me flubbing up the tar-hash-compare process.
>
>For a brief moment, I thought I could write a package definition that
>points to
>a specific `devel/foo' branch of my repo and then have `guix build
>--check`
>compare builds as I update the branch head. However, the source hash
>obviously
>changes, so this idea is dead in the water.
>
>What I need is a way to verify whether build outputs change as I make
>on the
>`devel/foo' branch. Any brilliant ideas?
>
>Cheers!


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