From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: texlive-fetch instead of svn-fetch Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:50:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87k1hiy7gu.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzjUo-0001eA-0R for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:50:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzjUn-0008Ln-2w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:50:41 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21023) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gzjUm-0008Kp-LC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:50:41 -0500 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" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hey Guix, Tex Live packages often have a complicated source file layout. They don=E2=80=99t usually come in a nice self-contained tarball. Instead they = are a mosaic of files that are sourced from different parts of the Tex Live SVN tree. For many Tex Live packages the =E2=80=9Csource=E2=80=9D field is insufficient, so we add lots of additional origins as native inputs. This makes for very ugly package definitions. (See texlive-fonts-txfonts for an example.) What do you think about adding a new procedure that can fetch sources from different locations? This might be done by extending SVN-FETCH or by adding a special TEXLIVE-FETCH that fetches sources from different directories in the source tree, returning them as *one* origin with one simple hash. -- Ricardo