From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
To: Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: par2cmdline.
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:36:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160912203617.2f60f8e0@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09722be1-ef1a-757a-1e4c-aa6ce5724654@openmailbox.org>
Hi! Thanks for the patch; a few comments below:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 19:18:42 +1000
Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> From 0bb6fe510ce6a6c1cd0851527909db16b167d703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Brendan Tildesley <brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:02:27 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add par2cmdline.
>
> * gnu/package/disk.scm (par2cmdline): New variable.
[...]
> + (source (origin
> + (method url-fetch)
> + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline/archive/v"
> + version ".tar.gz"))
> + (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
> + (sha256
> + (base32
> + "0ykfb7ar0x0flfdgf6i8xphyv5b93dalbjj2jb6hx7sdjax33n1g"))
> + ;; This test merely needs a file to test recovery on, but
> + ;; /dev/random is essentially /dev/urandom plus minimum entropy
> + ;; locking, making the test hang indefinitely. This change is
> + ;; already upstream: remove on upgrade to future 0.6.15.
Could you possobily list the upstream commit id for this change?
> + (modules '((guix build utils)))
> + (snippet
> + '(substitute* "tests/test20" (("if=/dev/random") "if=/dev/urandom")))))
> + (native-inputs
> + `(("automake" ,automake)
> + ("autoconf" ,autoconf)))
> + (build-system gnu-build-system)
> + (arguments
> + `(#:phases
> + (modify-phases %standard-phases
> + (add-after 'unpack 'aclocal
> + (lambda _ (zero? (system* "aclocal"))))
> + (add-after 'aclocal 'automake
> + (lambda _ (zero? (system* "automake" "--add-missing"))))
> + (add-after 'automake 'autoconf
> + (lambda _ (zero? (system* "autoconf")))))))
Could these phases be squashed into a single phase that calls
"autoreconf"?
> + (synopsis "File verification and repair tool")
> + (description "Par2cmdline is a tool for generating RAID-like PAR2 recovery
> +files a fraction the size their of using Reed-Solomon coding. PAR2 files can
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think that bit could be left out. Unless fixing a typo could make it
understandable.
> +be stored along side backup or published files for recovering from bitrot.")
> + (home-page "https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline")
> + (license (list license:gpl2+ ; *
We can leave gpl2+ out, since in this case it is covered by gpl3+
> + license:gpl3+ ; config.guess
> + license:x11)))); install-sh
Could you send an updated patch?
Thanks,
`~Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-13 1:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-12 9:18 [PATCH] gnu: par2cmdline Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-13 1:36 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
2016-09-13 10:50 ` Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-13 12:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-13 14:07 ` Brendan Tildesley
2016-09-14 14:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-16 3:42 ` Eric Bavier
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