From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: texlive-fetch instead of svn-fetch Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 15:55:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87sgw0gih0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <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]:51073) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1Xxl-0004Zf-FX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:56:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1Xxj-00004w-1r for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:56:04 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a0c:e300::1]:42460) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1Xxi-0008Mr-Q2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:56:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87k1hiy7gu.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 01 Mar 2019 15:50:25 +0100") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hey Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Tex Live packages often have a complicated source file layout. They > don=E2=80=99t usually come in a nice self-contained tarball. Instead the= y 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. I don=E2=80=99t know much about the source file layout in TeX Live, but from what you describe, a =E2=80=98texlive-fetch=E2=80=99 procedure that gathers= files sounds like the right approach. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.