From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Tracking upstream releases Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 22:42:19 +0100 Message-ID: <87eggik4lg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1w8crgs.fsf@gnu.org> <874mhj9v1s.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:48821) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqT3Z-0007R9-HU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:42:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqT3W-0004OW-Rw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 17:42:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874mhj9v1s.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex Kost's message of "Thu, 22 Oct 2015 11:17:19 +0300") 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: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s (2015-10-21 15:54 +0300) wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> We now have a number of importers, which is great, but so far we had no >> support to update packages once they had been imported, even though most >> of the code to do that already is in the importer. >> >> So commit 0a7c5a09 generalizes the upstream-tracking code from (guix >> gnu-maintenance) a bit, such that we can then easily define =E2=80=9Cupd= aters=E2=80=9D >> based on the import code. As an example, subsequent commits add an >> updater for ELPA and one for CRAN. The end result is: >> >> >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -t cran -t elpa >> gnu/packages/statistics.scm:819:13: r-testthat would be upgraded from 0.= 10.0 to 0.11.0 >> gnu/packages/emacs.scm:856:13: emacs-auctex would be upgraded from 11.88= .6 to 11.88.9 >> >> (When =E2=80=98-t=E2=80=99 is omitted, all the updaters are used.) > > Great! What about instead of (or along with) "-t cran -t elpa", use a > comma separated list as it is done in "guix lint --checkers=3D..."? I agree it would be more consistent (I guess I was a bit lazy here=E2=80=A6) Would you like to make this change? Otherwise I can give it a go. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.