From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:49:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y553n8gu.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9hknkgf.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:30:24 -0500")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> What we could do is to add a ‘snippet’ 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'.
Well, looking at the code, I see that any changes there are likely to
result in a full rebuild. I pushed a new mit-krb5 fix to core-updates,
and it was quite easy, so maybe it's not worth worrying about this
anytime soon. There are far more important jobs to work on.
Thanks,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 21:51 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
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 [this message]
2013-11-05 13:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
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