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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN X-Migadu-To: larch@yhetil.org X-Migadu-Country: US ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1656681374; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references:list-id:list-help: list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=L1GKhtA3akLdrTY5cPNEb5n4mWwHYIyShjzRjkJ7+UQ=; b=CMTTwSMudQdYn9hx9JklOUyvFxF9HE9zV5V5SEEenj52sBEqTVVfOrfaqhiAhWC7nW7fRW RbPM6E/JeyLpwTf8ZAjuOG4rb2NP+UOQKuFMOYWZpNgqcj6vJnGhXAF8c5Yz9Tr19WU56C HGODQghOEJ8mMhRmiMwC6E/sv1ziM9HD1rTZaTGxgMKSUnG9xntbiH3Lg6Ai/nBJ1f42Hz RFp7i9szmm620m2BC2JbA8SS/A6ZiHToN9C4hQUNQ3iPyv7GXvS315/9vanrFL6+NJLaVx jkp82gU42AuWYVP9f4AaCHFrxem/A80BAjN/p+xpFvrVTFnWVFhRUEnAORQ1HQ== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1656681374; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=NnxYq+fF8c8DNyjO1HFj2Qb36dwErbUz3hXacvBN90DMZ4ZH0V1CuenIx2ZGu5tiqPoDfg SvUQuy2Z1x1yZ46ZwzQ3QyJtHW2AHFpTYH9CJqz5OW/WOyjBQxfQMGvQgi8wWqtdk04iZt A090rbz4mIIqguwkezDVJxWMMfNuXKOvDMsPmW9ohM6Wg4HJbNo6Yh27Th0KM5viwHep6+ oXacuETvwnFpykbOyohwRqPtFyQd2QFP0ndrzASqPxVTU0yCLlnKFis9rpCpFu0XiPD20i y4zE1LH9XInS+qjOPKVr68wOncdep+SgieqhHNR3QzwD59cB5wi6JmoX3YOUdQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=dS5c5xab; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Spam-Score: -5.45 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=pass header.d=gnu.org header.s=fencepost-gnu-org header.b=dS5c5xab; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of "guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom="guix-devel-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org" X-Migadu-Queue-Id: A2B09B294 X-Spam-Score: -5.45 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: LxvMdQWxkCud Hello, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > while working on refreshing to a specific version (see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-06/msg00222.html) I > discovered that the updaters fall back to another updater. Is this > intended? Yes. > Concrete example (using refresh to a specific version): Package > "xlsxio" has no version 0.2.30. When trying to refresh to this > version, the github updater comes first and of course fails to get > this version. Then the generic-git updater is triggered and tries to > get the version. > > IMHO each package should be handled by a single updater. I agree with Maxime: trying out several updaters is the right one. > What do you think? > > BTW 1: There are other packages which are handled be several updaters: > If you sum up the percent valued of "guix refresh --list-updaters" you > will get about 140%. Anyhow the generic-git updater contributed with > about 30% to this amount. Heh, true. :-) > BTW 2: Which updater is used for each package is non-deterministic. Do you have an example? I=E2=80=99d think they=E2=80=99re always tried in = the same order, no? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.