From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:20:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20131030162016.GA16421@debian> References: <87zjprpr1h.fsf@netris.org> <877gcukc01.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54610) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbYVf-00089o-OT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:20:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbYVX-0003UB-Tc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:20:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <877gcukc01.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 =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:35:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The new method won’t work in this case. > Thus, the patch has to be applied manually with Alternatively, could we modify (guix packages patch-and-repack) so that instead of calling "tar" directly, it executes the phase named 'unpack of the package? After that, it would apply the patches and repackage. This would be more flexible. For instance, we could use it to derive a udev source tarball out of the systemd sources, which would then be returned via guix build udev -S Andreas