Subject: Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 16:48:09 +0200

Efraim Flashner <[email-masked]> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/disk.scm (mac-fdisk): New variable.
> * gnu/packages/patches/mac-fdisk-gentoo-patchset.patch,
> gnu/packages/patches/mac-fdisk-p18.patch: New files.
> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Register them.

[...]

> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/mac-fdisk-gentoo-patchset.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,866 @@
> +https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-fs/mac-fdisk/files

[...]

> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/mac-fdisk-p18.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,2070 @@
> +This is the result of unzipping the 0.1-18 diff.gz
> +https://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mac-fdisk/mac-fdisk_0.1-18.diff.gz

Given the size of these patches, please add a couple of sentences
explaining what they do.

It would be best if we could refer to a fork instead of carrying those
patches, though.

Ludo’.