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)

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From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> suse.cz>
Cc: 20081 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20081: patch-source-shebangs crashes on broken symlink
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:32:30 +0100

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.

Andreas
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