Hi Leo,
On 25/01/17 07:40, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis:I tried using this patch to fix a bug in ruby-minitar, but the build fails as shown below. Any ideas? $ ./pre-inst-env guix build ruby-minitar The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/naprvm320mvzlhv4ciax0436qqm3r8zj-ruby-minitar-0.5.4.drv /gnu/store/vz70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv @ build-started /gnu/store/vz70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv - x86_64-linux /var/log/guix/drvs/vz//70g01wln7aflljz65yf425pppcgpjd-minitar-0.5.4.tar.xz.drv.bz2 data.tar.gz metadata.gz source is under 'data.tar.gz'[...]?: 0 [chdir "data.tar.gz"]This is apparently a “tarbomb”: it unpacks more than one file in $PWD. The ‘first-subdirectory’ procedure in gnu-build-system.scm is a bit stupid and takes the first file in $PWD as the directory to cd to.
Well, it is unpacking a .gem file rather than a tar.gz, and patching rubygem sources has never worked. It might be worth fixing this in general, or perhaps packaging minitar from GitHub rather than rubygems.
As usual, thanks for keeping on top of all this. ben
