From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <871szlpwht.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38556) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buItz-0005PX-8B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:44:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buItt-0007JY-BR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:44:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org> (Christopher Allan Webber's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:57:28 -0500") 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" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > I'd be for using actual upstream, or at least supplying both, so that > they're mirrors. One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us > when updates to packages are available? =E2=80=98guix refresh=E2=80=99 works for PyPI but not for arbitrary sites. That would be in favor of using PyPI as the source, but I don=E2=80=99t know what else is at stake. Ludo=E2=80=99.