Török Edwin <edwin+ml-g...@etorok.net> skribis: > On 2016-10-16 22:04, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: >> >>> When grafting, how will we achieve confidence that we've found the >>> correct occurrence of the last character? I think we will have to give >>> up our recently added feature of being able to change the version number >>> of grafts. >> >> Wait, don’t jump to the conclusions. :-) > > I've just encountered the same problem with fontconfig (after installing > GuixSD, running guix pull and guix system reconfigure, --no-grafts was > required). > Would it be possible for the grafts to keep a symlink (somehow registered to > be part of the grafted fontconfig so that guix gc doesn't remove it) instead > of patching the binaries? > /gnu/store/<old-hash>-fontconfig-2.11.94 -> > /gnu/store/<grafted-hash>-fontconfig-2.11.94
We could use a self symlink, or we could use something like <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=9d50da70608de32d9db0c29859caec6f2cddb95f>. Mark, WDYT? What remains to be seen is how many packages are affected by this issue, and whether a generic solution needs to be found. Ludo’.
