Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 07:15:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> The notion of phases is internal to the build system, so we can’t really
>> do that.
>
> Well, the phases are part of the package object. So should it not be able
> to extract them? Or does the source field not have any access to the
> arguments field?

First <origin> objects are distinct from <package> object, and there’s
no connection from the <origin> to the containing <package> (if any).

Second, the ‘arguments’ field is passed as-is, uninterpreted, to the
build system.  And most of the time the ‘arguments’ field has no
#:phases argument anyway.

Just to say that the current design wouldn’t lend itself to this sort of
thing.

Perhaps phases should be a more fundamental thing, imposed on all build
systems, but thinking through such a change would require a stronger
incentive, IMO.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.