Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> For Automake, I don’t think it makes sense, though. Or did you have >> anything special in mind? > > Dependencies. For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar. > (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42. > Also, Bar-42 has some back

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-11 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> For Automake, I don’t think it makes sense, though. Or did you have > anything special in mind? Dependencies. For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar. (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42. Also, Bar-42 has some backward incompatible changes.) If you up

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Right, it’s not independent of the autotools that were used. > What I meant is that an autotools-generated tarball contains a build > system whose sole requirement is a Bourne shell and a POSIX make. Yes, you are right, sorry for my confusio

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> No: Autoconf/Automake/Libtool have the advantage of /not/ being >> prerequisites for building packages that use them. > > You mean that the output of the autotools is independent of their version > (assuming that a

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > No: Autoconf/Automake/Libtool have the advantage of /not/ being > prerequisites for building packages that use them. You mean that the output of the autotools is independent of their version (assuming that a recent enough version is used so

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> Andreas Enge skribis: >> > A tiny update to core-updates. >> It’s OK for master since it doesn’t trigger a rebuild of the core tools. > > That is surprising; should automake not be an implicit input for all > pack

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2013-01-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Andreas Enge skribis: > > A tiny update to core-updates. > It’s OK for master since it doesn’t trigger a rebuild of the core tools. That is surprising; should automake not be an implicit input for all packages using the gnu build system?

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2012-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Nikita Karetnikov skribis: > I'm probably missing something, but it seems to me that it's better to > keep the old recipe instead of replacing it. So it will be possible to > install different versions (just like with 'nix-env'). It makes sense in some cases, and not in others. In general,

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2012-12-30 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
>> A tiny update to core-updates. > It’s OK for master since it doesn’t trigger a rebuild of the core > tools. I'm probably missing something, but it seems to me that it's better to keep the old recipe instead of replacing it. So it will be possible to install different versions (just like with '

Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2012-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > A tiny update to core-updates. It’s OK for master since it doesn’t trigger a rebuild of the core tools. > From cc6fb8577e5e3dc8f52bc53a69249517e22c5576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Andreas Enge > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:25:18 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH 12/12] distro:

[PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6

2012-12-22 Thread Andreas Enge
A tiny update to core-updates. Andreas From cc6fb8577e5e3dc8f52bc53a69249517e22c5576 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Enge Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:25:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 12/12] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6. * distro/packages/autotools.scm (automake): Update to 1.12.6. --- dis