From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: Upstream Release Monitoring Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:19:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20140912071924.GA22135@debian> References: <1410492660.18719@bluehome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSL8y-0003Cs-Qb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:19:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSL8r-0003yc-BC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:19:44 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:58276) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XSL8r-0003yB-25 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:19:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1410492660.18719@bluehome.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jason Self Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:31:00PM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > With the number of packages available using Guix (and it seems to keep > increasing) keeping up on the latest upstream versions manually is > gonna be a pain. :) Shouldn't the checking be automated in some way? > One idea might be to create a bug in the GNU Bug Tracker when a new > upstream release is detected. There is already "guix refresh", but so far it works only for gnu packages; with the parameter "-u", it even updates the version and hash, so if the source uri is written using "string-append" and "version", it can update package recipes automatically. It would be interesting to generalise this to arbitrary packages. Maybe an idea for the hackathon? Andreas