Re: make packagers life easier

2015-03-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > I have a similar feature request. Long time ago when I was packaging > gnunet and curl, I had to spend a lot of time trying to understand why > `make check` phase fails in the build environment. More often than not, > I had to extensively study the test cases and

Re: make packagers life easier

2015-03-17 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
On 03/15/2015 06:00 PM, Tomáš Čech wrote: > > How to implement? > - inject always failing phase into phases list > > Another level of this feature could be even continuing of the build. I have a similar feature request. Long time ago when I was packaging gnunet and curl, I had to spend a lot of

Re: make packagers life easier

2015-03-16 Thread Andreas Enge
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 06:01:15PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > How to implement? > > - inject always failing phase into phases list > I’d like to read what others think because I’m probably biased, but my > first reaction is that (1) I’ve rarely if ever felt the need for this, > (2) adding a

Re: make packagers life easier

2015-03-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Tomáš Čech skribis: > Stop after/before phase > === > > What it can help with? > > - download sources of package without constructing URL > - prepare sources for creating or applying patch I think ‘guix build -S foo’ does exactly that, doesn’t it? > - when preparing con

make packagers life easier

2015-03-15 Thread Tomáš Čech
Hello Guix, I'd like to share some thoughts about packaging to find I'm doing it wrong or show that there is room for improvements. I don't think that the proposed improvements are hard to implement (from algorithmic POV) and I'm aware that all the things can be solved on my side, but that is not