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authorJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2018-07-10 19:06:32 +0200
committerJan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>2018-07-12 06:22:04 +0200
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gexp: Allow bytevector as content of `plain-file'.
This allows for using a package source directly from git, doing something like (define (command->bytevector command) (let ((port (apply open-pipe* OPEN_READ command))) (let ((output (get-bytevector-all port))) (close-port port) output))) (define-public hello-git (package (name "hello") (version "git") (source (let* ((commit "stable-2.0") (content (command->bytevector `("git" "archive" "--format" "tar" "--prefix" ,(string-append commit "/") ,commit))) (file-name (string-append "hello-" commit))) (plain-file file-name content))) ... )) * guix/gexp.scm (<plain-file>): Also allow bytevector content. (plain-file-compiler): Handle bytevector content. * doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Describe plain-file now also taking bytevectors.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
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@@ -5355,7 +5355,7 @@ procedure (@pxref{The Store Monad, @code{interned-file}}).
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} plain-file @var{name} @var{content}
Return an object representing a text file called @var{name} with the given
-@var{content} (a string) to be added to the store.
+@var{content} (a string or a bytevector) to be added to the store.
This is the declarative counterpart of @code{text-file}.
@end deffn