From: Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 46441@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:31:37 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7mhf5gm.fsf@collares.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eehlqf2y.fsf@tcd.ie>
Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
> Mauricio Collares <mauricio@collares.org> writes:
>
>> Thanks for the reply! The particular use case here is to have a
>> reproducible environment via the Nix package manager. Omitting
>> irrelevant details, Nix is a source-based package manager whose
>> "recipes" for building packages typically start by doing the equivalent
>> of "download this file with this sha256 from this URL" (actually, this
>> is typically done by fetching a specific commit from a repository, but
>> in this case I believe tarballs are the only option);
>
> What are the obstacles to fetching from elpa.git here?
> E.g. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/elpa.git/?h=externals/auctex
Hi Basil,
If it's possible to do this for any package, then this is a great
alternative! I see there's an elpa-packages file in the ELPA Git repo
pointing to the sources for each package, which is definitely a format
that Nix can work with. A few questions, just to be sure:
1) When does a commit to the package's repo generate a new release on
ELPA? (every commit triggers a release?)
2) Are there "exceptions" to the list in elpa-packages? That is, if a
package's repo is listed nil in elpa-packages, is it guaranteed that a
branch will exist for that package in ELPA's Git repo?
Thanks,
Mauricio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-11 19:46 bug#46441: GNU ELPA feature request: host .lz archives (as well as uncompressed) for current versions Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 17:32 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 18:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:36 ` Mauricio Collares
2021-02-12 19:08 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-02-12 19:31 ` Mauricio Collares [this message]
2021-02-12 22:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-04 1:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-04 23:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-12 18:41 ` Mauricio Collares
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