bug#49820: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-bin: Add patch files to repo.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 at 14:56, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Martin Becze <mjbecze@riseup.net> writes:
>>
>>> This adds two patch files that used to be hosted by the arch linux community
>>> but was recently moved.
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/patches/texlive-poppler-0.84.patch: New file.
>>> * gnu/packages/patches/pdftex-poppler0.76.patch: New file.
>>> * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-bin): Changed to use local patch files.
>
> [...]
>
>> I'm afraid this can't go to master as 'guix refresh -l texlive-bin' says
>> 5160 packages would need to be rebuilt.  It's also not needed for
>> core-updates as it contains TeX Live 2021 which doesn't need these
>> patches anymore.
>
> Indeed, but sadly we overlooked at the issue raised by this patch; not
> the patch themselves, the move of Arch to another hosting system.
>
> The consequence is many time-machine are now broken, for instance:
>
>     $ guix time-machine --commit=e77412362f -- help
>
> sha256 hash mismatch for 
> /gnu/store/7c5jx9zbnh8nlapbxqv1wl8056lhhl2l-texlive-bin-pdftex-poppler0.75.patch:
>   expected hash: 1cqpcp7h1qyxyp3wjbpcmx2wgvj9ywpz60hvy280mp9w633yzyg3
>   actual hash:   0ribvsg4bka1cyj1wz4cd6vrxkvhqvlmjr75d7fdz5pw9r3rlgk8
> hash mismatch for store item 
> '/gnu/store/7c5jx9zbnh8nlapbxqv1wl8056lhhl2l-texlive-bin-pdftex-poppler0.75.patch'
>
>
> because this kind of snippet:
>
>        (let ((arch-patch
>               (lambda (name revision hash)
>                 (origin
>                   (method url-fetch)
>                   (uri (string-append 
> "https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git";
>                                       "/plain/trunk/" name 
> "?h=packages/texlive-bin"
>                                       "&id=" revision))
>                   (file-name (string-append "texlive-bin-" name))
>                   (sha256 (base32 hash)))))
>              (arch-revision "418dd6f008c3d41a461353fdb60f2d73d87c58ed"))
>          (append (search-patches  "texlive-bin-CVE-2018-17407.patch"
>                                   "texlive-bin-luatex-poppler-compat.patch")
>                  (list
>                   (arch-patch "pdftex-poppler0.75.patch" arch-revision
>                               
> "1cqpcp7h1qyxyp3wjbpcmx2wgvj9ywpz60hvy280mp9w633yzyg3")
>
> Another story!
>
>
> Well, I think this patch proposal for master can be closed.  WDYT?

Yes!

Thanks for your efforts in tidying the house :-).

Closing for now.

Maxim