From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: PATCH: LibreOffice Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 21:50:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20150601195015.GA6191@debian> References: <20150531090831.GA4344@debian> <87pp5gtzi1.fsf@netris.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]:58203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVjP-0006HC-Vj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:50:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVjM-00016Y-O3 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:50:43 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:54355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YzVjM-00015t-EY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:50:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pp5gtzi1.fsf@netris.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: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 01:42:30PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Please do (version-prefix version 3) instead. You'll need to import > (guix utils) for it. Very neat! I knew about version-major+minor, but not this one. On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 10:32:39PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think we should try hard to not make Libreoffice depend on > Autoconf/Automake; it’s always a good idea to avoid it, but even more so > here given the build time and size of the thing. :-) > Does that seem doable? I will try it out. Given the build time and the fact that parallel builds do not work (but they seemed to have worked for John last year, I have no idea why there is a problem now), things advance at a very leisurely pace. Now that I deleted my which.go, I need to recompile with the which from base. So this will be the build process for tonight, tomorrow, I can try out something else :-) On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 02:52:05PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > Obviously any exercise in Free Software is "doable" (we have the source code!) > but, my experience in packaging for Guix tells me that it can be very easy to > fall into the trap of making changes to the upstream packages which effectively > forks them. Then we become the maintainer of a forked package. Of course that is something we should avoid. With a bit of luck here, though, libreoffice will compile with a non-patched xmlsec tarball. After all, we will not install binaries or scripts from xmlsec (at least I hope so), so maybe the patch-shebang phase is not really required. We will see. Andreas