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Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>> What we could do is to add a =E2=80=98snippet=E2=80=99 field in <origin>=
 where users
>> could provide an expression to use as the patch phase.
>
> How about adding a 'snippet' field to <origin> where users could provide
> an expression to use as the _unpack_ phase?  That's really what we need
> here, and it would be nice to support things other than 'tar'.

Currently the =E2=80=98unpack=E2=80=99 phase is done by the build system.  =
We could
imagine feeding the build system with a directory instead of a tarball,
and thus handling the unpacking in an intermediate derivation.

However that would make things more complex (esp. during bootstrapping),
and I=E2=80=99m not sure it=E2=80=99s really needed.

Anyway, if we do find that it=E2=80=99s really needed in the future, we can
revisit that (after 0.5, that is ;-)).

Ludo=E2=80=99.