On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 10:27:00AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > This patch will try to apply the patch and handle the exit codes of
> > gunzip and patch correctly:
> 
> Good catch, this LGTM.  I wonder how this went unnoticed for so long!

By handling the exit codes properly, the build fails ;) But I'm working
on that today.

> As for the actual update, the intent is to add a second ‘net-tools’
> variant, right?

Right. I want to be able to update net-tools without rebuilding
everything. So, GnuTLS will use a special variant of net-tools for its
test suite, and the built GnuTLS will not keep any references to
net-tools after it is built.