Re: The new patch method and mit-krb5

[Mark H Weaver]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> What we could do is to add a ‘snippet’ field in <origin> where users
>> could provide an expression to use as the patch phase.
>
> How about adding a 'snippet' field to <origin> where users could provide
> an expression to use as the _unpack_ phase?  That's really what we need
> here, and it would be nice to support things other than 'tar'.

Well, looking at the code, I see that any changes there are likely to
result in a full rebuild.  I pushed a new mit-krb5 fix to core-updates,
and it was quite easy, so maybe it's not worth worrying about this
anytime soon.  There are far more important jobs to work on.

     Thanks,
       Mark