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patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink

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Message #25 received at 20081-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>
Cc: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, 20081-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 23:22:41 +0200

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

> Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz> skribis:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
>>>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.
>>
>> I agree with you that the fishy part is in tarball, but we could make
>> build more robust. Getting backtrace is not nice way to end a build.
>
> I agree.  I think we should patch ‘find-files’ in core-updates to not
> follow symlinks:

Done in 347f54e.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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