Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > Hello, ‘emacs-flycheck’ package is "broken": as you remember¹ MELPA > updates tarballs in place (“guix build --source emacs-flycheck” gives me > a different hash), so it's better to use an upstream release.
My bad, I had forgotten about that problem. > As can be seen² there is a ready-to-use tarball but only for the > previous version (0.23). There is also a snapshot of the source > code for the latest version (0.24), but it is raw: > > - 'emacs-build-system' can't be used because the info manuals will not > be generated. > > - 'gnu-build-system' can't be used because the provided Makefile was > created for preparing a package for Cask (not for a real installing > the package into a system). > > So I took the previous release for this patch because it doesn't require > any additional tweaking. Sounds reasonable. > From 7df85c9187385607f0156d82f078e1ea2c9c6162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 21:18:44 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: emacs-flycheck: Use the upstream release instead of > MELPA. > > * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (flycheck): Change version to 0.23. > Replace MELPA tarball with the upstream release. OK! Thanks, Ludo’.
