Novice question: debugging a package fix: can I locally override just a single line of a long multi-line string in a package?

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Anyway, if you want to make sure installPhase runs again, you can locally add an echo Hello World line into the installPhase, that will force the rebuild for sure.

that did it! even with test I can finally see the installPhase run (and the error trigger)

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also, from the other thread it looks like the package build treated the complaint as a warning?

Ah, no: the reason for this change is because I’m 99% sure the CLI parsing of the command being called is not happy with space-delimited arguments on flags. That is: its CLI parsing is implemented such that it expects --a=b not --a b, thus the current script’s way (of passing in --locale into it) can never work. See this writeup:

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the index2word script is dropping the --locale arg and it would work if --locale=$locale was used by the nix script? reason for this hypothesis: this while loop is moving over whitespace-expansion, meaning the $locale encounters that loop all by itself lonesome, and gets consumed by that break clause