Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> skribis: > Currently, if a patch that we carry in Guix is taken upstream, and then > we update the package, Guix will automatically reverse the patch without > error. > > This behavior delayed my xorg-update work for several hours today (I was > stumped and took a break), and I worry that patches that aren't needed > for successful compilation (e.g. security fixes) could be automatically > undone without anyone noticing. > > Perhaps the solution is to pass --force (not --batch) to 'patch'.
I’ve re-read patch(1) and yes, definitely. Would you like to make this change in ‘core-updates’? Thanks, Ludo’.
