Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

2013-09-14 Thread Karl Berry
œôòøguix build --sourceœôòù should be changed to return the result of applying that œôòøpatchœôòù phase to the upstream tarball. WDYT? Sounds right. in that it provides the /complete/ build recipe that led to the binaryœôòóœôòücompleteœôòý means that it includes build scripts, p

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

2013-09-14 Thread Jason Self
Ludovic Courtès said: > Yes, I understand this, but my question was more about how this occurs > technically. > > My understanding is that Debian-based distros provide the unmodified > upstream source, with a debian/patches tree containing patches they > apply. Do I get it right? Ah, I see. In th

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

2013-09-14 Thread Sam Geeraerts
Op Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:01:13 +0200 schreef l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès): > My understanding is that Debian-based distros provide the unmodified > upstream source, with a debian/patches tree containing patches they > apply. Do I get it right? For gNewSense we do as follows. If the software reco

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

2013-09-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"Jason Self" skribis: > Ludovic Courtès asked: >> But, what does "source code" mean here? Does it mean the source that's >> made available using the distro tools, such as 'apt-get source'? > > That's my understanding of it. OK. Again, I’d like to stress that Guix goes way further than this: an

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Recognizing the GNU system as a free distro

2013-09-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) skribis: > So, do we want ‘guix build --source’ to return the already-patched, > FSDG-compliant source? > > It should return exactly the sources which actually got built -- which I > gather, though I'm not sure, is not necessarily the same as "unmodified >