Re: [PATCH] gnu: vim: Update to 8.0.0047.

[ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> The official vim mirrors only carries major versions and individual
> patches, no up-to-date releases. This patch changes the source uri to
> the tagged github releases instead of downloading all 40+ (so far)
> patches individually.
>
> I'm not very happy about changing to a third-party source, but IMO it
> beats keeping track of the frequent patches. WDYT?

Someone (you?) previously told me that this is not third-party
but encouraged source by upstream itself. My other system
(Gentoo) pulls vim from github aswell so this seems okay. I guess
more systems do it this way.

> From 786dc474126431c8d2b9b97644dd629f5f7aed37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:14:40 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: vim: Update to 8.0.0047.
>
> * gnu/packages/vim.scm (vim): Update to 8.0.0047.
> [source]: Change to github release archive.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/vim.scm | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/vim.scm b/gnu/packages/vim.scm
> index 4ee8c7d..32f9e62 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/vim.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/vim.scm
> @@ -48,14 +48,15 @@
>  (define-public vim
>    (package
>      (name "vim")
> -    (version "8.0")
> +    (version "8.0.0047")
>      (source (origin
>               (method url-fetch)
> -             (uri (string-append "ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-"
> -                                 version ".tar.bz2"))
> +             (uri (string-append "https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v"
> +                                 version ".tar.gz"))
> +             (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
>               (sha256
>                (base32
> -               "1s34rf8089klsbdx5l0iw7vjymir0kzfrx8wb30s31wygnq29axc"))))
> +               "1l24pbc06970crk513a98vlr77sp6wq6d0ylviwk9nhvfz4p0cff"))))
>      (build-system gnu-build-system)
>      (arguments
>       `(#:test-target "test"

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