Ludovic Courtès (2016-05-15 23:57 +0300) wrote: > Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> after having successfully packaged (locally) the Zenburn theme and >> Smartparens, I am preparing the package for clojure-mode >> >> But for the first time it happens that the downloaded source code is not >> tarred so tar fails and so does the unpack phase. >> >> How do I instruct the origin object not to attempt untarring my source ? > > It’s OK if the ‘origin’ denotes a file that is not a tarball. > > However, the build procedure will have to pay attention for that. For > instance, the default sequence of phases of ‘gnu-build-system’ includes > an ‘unpack’ phase, which is inappropriate here:
Specifically for this case Federico added 'uncompressed-file-fetch' method. Sorry, I forgot to answer at the time, so I answer here. You said it's a rare use case¹, but it is actually not. Many elpa packages are just single elisp files, so such method can be really useful. I'm going to switch our "trivial" emacs packages (paredit, let-alist and magit-svn) to "emacs-build-system" using this method, if no one will do it before me. ¹ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-01/msg00378.html > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Build-Systems.html > > There are a couple of examples, e.g., paredit in emacs.scm. Most of > them use ‘trivial-build-system’, which requires explicitly writing the > build/install operations. -- Alex
