From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5 Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:49:21 -0500 Message-ID: <87y553n8gu.fsf@netris.org> References: <87zjprpr1h.fsf@netris.org> <877gcukc01.fsf@gnu.org> <20131030162016.GA16421@debian> <87ob66iq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9hknkgf.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43498) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdS3T-0001cP-0T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:51:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdS3N-0000yF-4q for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:51:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87a9hknkgf.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:30:24 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Mark H Weaver writes: > ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: >> What we could do is to add a =E2=80=98snippet=E2=80=99 field in = where users >> could provide an expression to use as the patch phase. > > How about adding a 'snippet' field to 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