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’.
next prev parent 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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