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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu, guix: Add a gzip package which includes tests, and
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John Darrington |
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Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu, guix: Add a gzip package which includes tests, and use it where possible. |
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Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:26:56 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> Just so I understand the context: what part of util-linux does gzip
> depend on for its tests (that should be written in a comment)?
gzip depends on "more".
> Since gzip is built at the very end of the bootstrap process, is
> ???untested-gzip??? really needed? For instance, couldn???t the final gzip be
> built against an util-linux that is itself built against %boot5-inputs?
I did try a number of such workarounds but ran into issues.
I think the problem is that gzip is needed to unzip the tarball of util-linux.
J'