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02/02: doc: State that the 'patches' field is unconditional.


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: 02/02: doc: State that the 'patches' field is unconditional.
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:27:55 +0000 (UTC)

civodul pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.

commit 0dfebdaa9d3eb107d96a12dfa506d79e34dceaf2
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Thu Nov 3 11:26:42 2016 +0100

    doc: State that the 'patches' field is unconditional.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): State that 'patches' is
    unconditional.
---
 doc/guix.texi |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 38c6ccb..a582db1 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2808,6 +2808,10 @@ file name explicitly because the default is not very 
descriptive.
 @item @code{patches} (default: @code{'()})
 A list of file names containing patches to be applied to the source.
 
+This list of patches must be unconditional.  In particular, it cannot
+depend on the value of @code{%current-system} or
address@hidden
+
 @item @code{snippet} (default: @code{#f})
 A G-expression (@pxref{G-Expressions}) or S-expression that will be run
 in the source directory.  This is a convenient way to modify the source,



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