From cffad35505d925609bf836364bc01a94400e6457 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shea Levy Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:13:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] The GPL issue does not apply to this version of binutils svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=30871 --- pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix | 16 ---------------- 1 file changed, 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix index 7b7ff2d44be..e2e3c0f14cd 100644 --- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/binutils/default.nix @@ -4,22 +4,6 @@ let basename = "binutils-2.21.1a"; in stdenv.mkDerivation rec { name = basename + stdenv.lib.optionalString (cross != null) "-${cross.config}"; - # WARNING: Upstream made a mistake in packaging that may mean anyone - # but the FSF hosting this tarball is accidentally in violation of - # the GPL. We can't update binutils until the next stdenv-updates, - # so we are stuck with this version. The issue is discussed in - # this email: http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html - # The tarball for this minor version will not be fixed, as only the - # tarballs for the latest minor version of each major version will - # be repackaged. The fixed sources for the closest version to this one - # can be found at mirror://gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 - # or http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 - # The sources missing from this tarball come from cgen. It is unclear - # WHICH sources should be included, but the cvs tree can be checked out - # by: - # cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src login - # {enter "anoncvs" as the password} - # cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/src co cgen src = fetchurl { url = "mirror://gnu/binutils/${basename}.tar.bz2"; sha256 = "0m7nmd7gc9d9md43wbrv65hz6lbi2crqwryzpigv19ray1lzmv6d";