From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu, guix: Add a gzip package which includes tests, and use it where possible. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:26:56 -0400 Message-ID: <20140721162656.GA22196@gnu.org> References: <1405946787-12021-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <1405946787-12021-2-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87y4vm3cv2.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9GQU-0007Ni-07 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:26:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9GQS-0003TH-Q6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:26:57 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9GQS-0003Sx-M8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:26:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87y4vm3cv2.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > Just so I understand the context: what part of util-linux does gzip > depend on for its tests (that should be written in a comment)? gzip depends on "more". > Since gzip is built at the very end of the bootstrap process, is > ???untested-gzip??? really needed? For instance, couldn???t the final gzip be > built against an util-linux that is itself built against %boot5-inputs? I did try a number of such workarounds but ran into issues. I think the problem is that gzip is needed to unzip the tarball of util-linux. J'