GNU bug report logs - #20081
patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:03:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 20081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
Cc: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>,
 20081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:18:53 -0400

Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:02:11PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
>> I'm trying to create package for taskwarrior.
>> Source tarball contain symlinks to nonexisting file `task':
>
> I would argue that this is not a bug in guix, but in the tarball.
> You can remove the link with an additional phase before 'configure, see, for
> instance, the dvdisaster package in cdrom.scm.

The phase should go after the 'unpack' phase rather than before
configure, but otherwise I agree with Andreas.

       Mark
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