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From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>, jgart <jgart@dismail.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix refresh -u weird behaviour
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:41:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmw2208u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyxuremc.fsf@elephly.net>

Hi jgart,

On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 at 10:10, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

> Because Faker doesn’t list them in a way that the importer can add them.
> The quality of the importer determines the quality of the updater.  The
> updater only does what the importer tells it to do.

…and the Guix importer tells what it reads from upstream. :-)

In the paragraph above, “Faker” means the JSON metadata that PyPI
provides.

One might be interested by this thread:

        Accuracy of importers?
        Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>
        Thu, 28 Oct 2021 09:02:27 +0200
        id:878ryd8we4.fsf@inria.fr
        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-10
        https://yhetil.org/guix/878ryd8we4.fsf@inria.fr

Or by this message which provides some stats:

        Re: guix melpa mirror!
        zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
        Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:20:25 +0100
        id:86cz9kk71y.fsf@gmail.com
        https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-11
        https://yhetil.org/guix/86cz9kk71y.fsf@gmail.com

Cheers,
simon


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-04 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-04  3:27 guix refresh -u weird behaviour jgart
2023-10-04  8:10 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2023-10-04  9:41   ` Simon Tournier [this message]
2023-10-04 12:32 ` jgart
2023-10-04 16:03   ` Ricardo Wurmus

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