From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: The new patch method and mit-krb5 Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 19:59:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87zjprpr1h.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbJDK-0005oY-VT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:00:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbJDE-0005zl-SZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:00:46 -0400 Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:57481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbJDE-0005zd-GH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 20:00:40 -0400 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: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello all, 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. My working patch is now on the 'loongson' branch: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=loongson&id=db956e3aff4ea5d39fb45a5a1079f8b24a592c29 Can someone help me convert this to use the new patch method? We'll need a solution before the old patch method goes away. Thanks, Mark