Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver <[email protected]> writes:
> At present, "guix build --source icedove" simply returns the > corresponding IceCat tarball. The addition of code from upstream > Thunderbird, as well as the rebranding to "IceDove", is currently done > within phases. > > It would be good to arrange for "guix build --source icedove" to return > something more appropriate. > > I suggest that the first step should add an 'icedove-source' variable > that produces an icedove tarball, for now implemented in a way similar > to 'icecat-source' and incorporating the functionality of the > 'prepare-thunderbird-sources' and 'rename-to-icedove' phases of the > 'icedove' package. > > Note that snippets are unable to do this job, because they are only able > to produce tarballs with the same file name and top-level directory name > as the main upstream input. In this case, we need to produce a tarball > with name and top-level directory 'icedove' starting from an 'icecat' > tarball. That's been implemented some time ago. Closing! -- Thanks, Maxim
