From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: 32347@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32347: gzip cannot be patched
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:32:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muu56m31.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
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Hello!
I'm trying to add a patch to 'gzip', but it causes an infinite loop and
eventually the system runs out of memory.
It can be reproduced by adding this hunk:
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modified gnu/packages/compression.scm
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ adding and extracting files to/from a tar archive.")
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/gzip/gzip-"
version ".tar.xz"))
+ (snippet '(#t))
(sha256
(base32
"16h8g4acy7fgfxcjacr3wijjsnixwsfd2jhz3zwdi2qrzi262l5f"))))
[back]
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I guess this is because gzip itself is a patch input. Is this something
that can be fixed, or do we have to use "patching phases" in these cases?
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next reply other threads:[~2018-08-02 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-02 11:32 Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-08-02 11:57 ` bug#32347: gzip cannot be patched Efraim Flashner
2018-08-19 13:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-03 8:01 ` Efraim Flashner
2023-08-29 12:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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