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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ‘snippet’ in <origin>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:15:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uwyvbml.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqkjavxf.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:02:20 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Now, I think we could replace ‘snippet’ by ‘phases’.  That field would
> contain an <origin-phases> object with exactly 4 fields: unpack, patch,
> user (default to #f), and repack.
>
> In the LAPACK case, we’d do:
>
>   (origin
>     (uri ...)
>     (sha256 ...)
>     (phases (origin-phases (inherit %standard-origin-phases)
>               (user '(for-each delete-file ...)))))
>
> I think that would address your problem.  The set of phases would be
> fixed, though, unlike what ‘gnu-build-system’ does, but I think that’s
> fine.

The problem with that is that it makes the semantics less obvious: the
‘phases’ field is only used when it has a ‘user’ value other than #f, or
when the origin has a ‘patches’ field.

It seems that it needs more thought.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-23  9:08 LAPACK: tests fail; non-free files Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-23  9:16 ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-23 11:57 ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-24 19:33   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-11-04 19:19   ` [PATCH] gnu: Add LAPACK. (was: LAPACK: tests fail; non-free files) Nikita Karetnikov
2013-11-06 13:10     ` [PATCH] gnu: Add LAPACK Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-07  8:49       ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-11-07 22:43       ` ‘snippet’ in <origin> Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-08  6:32         ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-08 13:02           ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-11-08 15:13             ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-08 21:15             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-10-23 22:41 ` [PATCH] gnu: cmake: Bump to 2.8.12 Cyril Roelandt
2013-10-24 19:35   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-10-28 23:14   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-29  8:22     ` Andreas Enge
2013-10-29 10:42       ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-10-31 22:42     ` Cyril Roelandt
2013-11-01  8:50       ` Andreas Enge

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