Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> A better solution IMO would be to improve the ‘snippet’ mechanism in the >> first place. ‘computed-origin-method’ improves on it in two ways: (1) >> lazy evaluation of the gexp, and (2) allows the use of a different base >> name. >> >> I would think #2 is addressed by the ‘file-name’ field (isn’t it?). > > Using the 'file-name' field would not satisfy my requirements. It has > two problems: > > (1) It would cause the unmodified upstream Firefox source tarball to be > named "icecat-…" in the store. > > (2) Although the resulting tarball would be named "icecat-…", the > toplevel directory name within that tarball would still be named > "firefox-…". > > I consider each of these flaws to be unacceptable. Oh I see. I agree it’d be nice to have a way to fix those. Perhaps by allowing for custom pack-and-repack procedures? Thanks, Ludo’.