Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> skribis: > >> I tried to patch 'patch-and-repack', but it triggers a full >> rebuild... WDYT? > > Right, it’s expected to trigger a full rebuild, so this should be fixed > in ‘core-updates’.
Yes, but is there a way to test the patch on one package without having first to rebuild everything? > I guess we’ll have to collect the timestamps of all non-symlink files¹ > in step #1 and to reapply them with ‘set-file-time’ from (guix build > utils) after step #2. Does that mean that symlinks will still have their timestamps changed? To me that is a half-solution... Wouldn't it be easier to collect all recently modified files (those modified by snippet and patches), and set their timestamp to "1 January 1970", without changing the other files? That means removing the --mtime option from tar at step 3. > Thoughts? Would you like to do that? Sure :-) > ¹ Because Guile provides bindings for ‘utime’, which does not support > setting timestamps on symlinks. If the guile binding doesn't support setting timestamps on symlinks, I guess we can still use another way, like a system touch.
