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From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
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Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 08:45:32 +1000
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To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>, Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
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Hi there,

On 16/05/16 06:57, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> after having successfully packaged (locally) the Zenburn theme and
>> Smartparens, I am preparing the package for clojure-mode
>>
>> But for the first time it happens that the downloaded source code is n=
ot
>> tarred so tar fails and so does the unpack phase.
>>
>> How do I instruct the origin object not to attempt untarring my source=
 ?
> It=E2=80=99s OK if the =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99 denotes a file that is =
not a tarball.
>
> However, the build procedure will have to pay attention for that.  For
> instance, the default sequence of phases of =E2=80=98gnu-build-system=E2=
=80=99 includes
> an =E2=80=98unpack=E2=80=99 phase, which is inappropriate here:
>
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Systems.htm=
l
>
> There are a couple of examples, e.g., paredit in emacs.scm.  Most of
> them use =E2=80=98trivial-build-system=E2=80=99, which requires explici=
tly writing the
> build/install operations.
If it is a single file then I believe it is as simple as deleting the=20
unpack phase e.g. fasttree in bioinformatics.scm, I had thought it was=20
still good practice not to use the trivial build system where possible=20
as it omits some useful defaults.

ben