Re: Some utility functions

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Gábor,

Gábor Boskovits <address@hidden> skribis:

> I am not sure if I am duplicating functionality here, and also where
> these should belong, so I will send them here for discussion.

Thanks for sharing!  As Alex notes, some of these procedures are
more or less available in (guix build utils):

> (define (rm-recursive dir)

delete-file-recursively

> (define (check-header file header)

file-header-match

> (define (reset-zip-timestamps dir)
>   "Resets the timestamps of all zip achives under DIR."
>   (for-each repack-zip
>           (find-files dir ".*.(zip|jar|diz)$")))

That we don’t have (there’s ‘reset-gzip-timestamp’, with a ‘g’.)

How do we deal with that currently in Java packages?

Thanks,
Ludo’.