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Re: various packaging issues
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: various packaging issues |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:32:45 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> One example is “kentutils” in (gnu packages bioinformatics). It has
>> “samtabix” among its native-inputs and these additional sources are
>> unpacked in a separate build phase “prepare-samtabix”.
>
> Ah, thanks!
>
> Has anyone done or considered a rough idiom conversion guide from RPM
> specs (maybe also for dpkg, but that's less prescribed)? I can see
> possible problems, but it might be useful.
Not that I know of, but why not.
Honestly it’s unclear to me that this would bring much to
<https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Defining-Packages.html>
and related sections. Call it propaganda if you want, but I still find
this much simpler than Debian packaging (I’m not too familiar with RPM.)
Ludo’.
Re: various packaging issues, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, 2017/07/18