From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Help wanted fixing a ruby-minitar bug Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:42:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20170125174204.GA25252@jasmine> References: <87vat43znf.fsf@gnu.org> <9d24d9ba-0a97-b59d-5f40-1777317504c0@uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWRaG-0004Na-G5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:42:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cWRaB-0005c2-JA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:42:12 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9d24d9ba-0a97-b59d-5f40-1777317504c0@uq.edu.au> 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: Ben Woodcroft Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:32:22AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > Well, it is unpacking a .gem file rather than a tar.gz, and patching rubygem > sources has never worked. It might be worth fixing this in general, or > perhaps packaging minitar from GitHub rather than rubygems. Would you like to try packaging minitar from the Git repo so we can get this bug-fix?