From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: cannot use snippets with zip source Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 13:35:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20150209123519.GC15985@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44911) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKnYm-0003qy-4n for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:35:28 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKnYj-0001UY-0Q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:35:28 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.130]:65366) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKnYi-0001UD-OJ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 07:35:24 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: Guix-devel On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 11:54:02AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I'm packaging HISAT whose sources are available as a zip archive. This > means that I have to replace the unpack phase to use "unzip" to unpack > the source archive. Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot use snippets > for "static" patches to the sources when a zip archive is used (rather > than a tarball). Actually, I recently wondered about the same thing concerning a single file I wanted to download and patch. I suppose this makes the problem even worse... Anyway, in my case it is more a distraction, as I can easily run the snippet in the install phase. Andreas