Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add p7zip.

[Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>]

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Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Kei,
>>
>>> This patch should install p7zip correctly on every architecture
>>> supported by Guix. Ideally, this should be tested it on each arch for
>>> the sake of completeness and safety. I've got x86_64 covered so far. :-)
>>
>> thank you for this patch!
>>
>> I see that you took care of removing non-free parts in a patch and a
>> build phase.  Since “guix build -S p7zip” doesn’t run the build phase
>> users would still end up with a source archive containing the non-free
>> parts.  The best way is thus to remove things in a snippet.
>>
>> In “shogun” from the “machine-learning” module we remove supporting code
>> for non-free features in a snippet by cutting out anything between some
>> ifdef markers, but looking at the patch I see that it wouldn’t be
>> feasible for p7zip.
>>
>
> Perhaps I can just clear the non-free files and add that to the patch?

Never mind, I read your email incorrectly. After looking at many of the
snippets in the Guix tree, I agree that the equivalent for p7zip would
be quite large and unwieldy. Perhaps there is pre-sanitized p7zip code to
pull from if a patch can't be used?

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