Subject: [bug#50358] [PATCH core-updates-frozen 0/8] Shortened Rust bootstrap & other fixes.

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 22:49:05 -0400

Hello!

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/50066>.
>>
>> * guix/packages.scm (patch-and-repack): Test for a tarball using tarball? and
>> move the plain file copy to the else clause.
>>
>> Reported-by: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
>
> [...]
>
>> +               ((or #+comp (tarball? #+source))
>> +                (repack directory #$output))
>
> Would (tarball? #+source) be enough?

No!  Because any (non-tarball) compressed archives (of the types handled
by compressor in (guix build utils) must also be repacked) :-).

> Otherwise LGTM!  (Too bad I had overlooked this patch, it would have
> been nice to be done with world rebuilds.)

Yeah.  I'm attempting to synchronize for the next rebuild.

Thanks!

Maxim