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Re: A proposal of a consistent set of clear rules and guidelines involvi
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Philip McGrath |
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Re: A proposal of a consistent set of clear rules and guidelines involving snippets, phases and patches. |
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Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:38:04 -0400 |
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, at 11:17 PM, Maxime Devos wrote:
> * In principle, you can apply a patch from a phase. However, this causes the
> result of "guix build --source" to not correspond to the actual source code
> anymore (i.e., it doesn't act as corresponding source anymore), so consider
> this a last resort for situations such as avoiding causing a world-rebuild
> for a patch fixing a target-specific bug by making the patching conditional
> upon target-foo?. If you apply a patch from a phase, make sure that the patch
> appears in the inputs or native-inputs, such that "guix build --source=all"
> will include the patch.
Should we have an option for "guix build --source=all" to also include the Guix
"scripts used to control compilation and installation"?
-Philip