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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-02-27 23:06:50 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-03-01 16:00:46 +0100
commitc22a1324e64d6906be5e9a8e64b8716ad763434a (patch)
treea85accaeaa4c727c703f208e01a9296821832de7 /doc
parentd06fc008bdb86169d951721bbb4604948368d7c2 (diff)
grafts: Graft recursively.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/22139>. * guix/grafts.scm (graft-derivation): Rename to... (graft-derivation/shallow): ... this. (graft-origin-file-name, item->deriver, non-self-references) (cumulative-grafts, graft-derivation): New procedures * tests/grafts.scm ("graft-derivation, grafted item is a direct dependency"): Clarify title. Use 'grafted' instead of 'graft' to refer to the grafted derivation. ("graft-derivation, grafted item is an indirect dependency") ("graft-derivation, no dependencies on grafted output"): New tests. * guix/packages.scm (input-graft): Change to take a package instead of an input. (input-cross-graft): Likewise. (fold-bag-dependencies): New procedure. (bag-grafts): Rewrite in terms of 'fold-bag-dependencies'. * tests/packages.scm ("package-derivation, indirect grafts"): Comment out. * doc/guix.texi (Security Updates): Mention run-time dependencies and recursive grafting.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 4c9a91b399..5e62703380 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -10244,11 +10244,14 @@ Packages}). Then, the original package definition is augmented with a
(replacement bash-fixed)))
@end example
-From there on, any package depending directly or indirectly on Bash that
-is installed will automatically be ``rewritten'' to refer to
+From there on, any package depending directly or indirectly on Bash---as
+reported by @command{guix gc --requisites} (@pxref{Invoking guix
+gc})---that is installed is automatically ``rewritten'' to refer to
@var{bash-fixed} instead of @var{bash}. This grafting process takes
time proportional to the size of the package, but expect less than a
-minute for an ``average'' package on a recent machine.
+minute for an ``average'' package on a recent machine. Grafting is
+recursive: when an indirect dependency requires grafting, then grafting
+``propagates'' up to the package that the user is installing.
Currently, the graft and the package it replaces (@var{bash-fixed} and
@var{bash} in the example above) must have the exact same @code{name}