bug#50597: different fixed-output when using ’--with-source’ transformation

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> Why the store item of source tarball is it different when applying the
> transformation?
>
> Maxime provided a clue [1].

Maxime is right: ‘--with-source’ passes #:recursive? #t unconditionally,
whereas it’s usually #f for a ‘url-fetch’ kind of URI.

What we could do is make it #t if and only if the URL denotes a local
file and that file is a directory.  I think that would achieve what you
want without any observable regression in practice.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.