From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Multiple Versions of Packages? Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 12:13:57 +0100 Message-ID: <20131207111357.GA347@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39925) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpFpr-0004NQ-Lw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 06:14:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpFpn-00020z-7y for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 06:14:11 -0500 Received: from de.cellform.com ([88.217.224.109]:44627 helo=jocasta.intra) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VpFpm-00020o-RC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Dec 2013 06:14:07 -0500 Received: from jocasta.intra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jocasta.intra (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-4) with ESMTP id rB7BDvOj000424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 12:13:57 +0100 Received: (from john@localhost) by jocasta.intra (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id rB7BDvoX000423 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 7 Dec 2013 12:13:57 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline 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: guix-devel@gnu.org --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm trying to package Octave. It seems that it needs Texinfo to build. Furthermore, it does not work wit= h Texinfo 5.2 which is what we have in guix. I looked at patching it, but it would be non-tri= vial. I suspect there is still quite a bit of software in the wild that does not = work with Texinfo 5.x Can we have Texinfo 5 and Texinfo 4 concurrently in guix? J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKjAvUACgkQimdxnC3oJ7OMGwCfU09EkRP4ZcmGu/ytmb0T7HT1 EeYAn0NfFMrJUbta0qCwckbBtdTSDbCY =EkZ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--