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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:35:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gcukc01.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zjprpr1h.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:59:22 -0400")

Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> A patch is needed to allow mit-krb5 to build on MIPS N32.  However, the
> new method, where 'patches' is part of 'origin', does not work for
> mit-krb5.
>
> mit-krb5 is distributed in a strange way.  It's distributed as a tar
> file that contains two files: a .tar.gz file with the actual source
> code, and a signature for that .tar.gz file.  The mit-krb5 recipe copes
> with this by using a custom 'unpack' phase.

The new method won’t work in this case.

Thus, the patch has to be applied manually with

  (system* "patch" "-p1" "--batch" "-i" ...)

in the custom ‘unpack’ phase.

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-29 23:59 The new patch method and mit-krb5 Mark H Weaver
2013-10-30 15:35 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-30 16:20   ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-30 18:15     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-30 18:35       ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-30 21:35         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-04 17:30       ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-04 21:49         ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-05 13:31         ` Ludovic Courtès

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