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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
Cc: "Christopher Baines via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU
	System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
	Sarah Morgensen <iskarian@mgsn.dev>
Subject: Re: Can we find a better idiom for unversioned packages?
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 12:57:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTJT4Md/QEi3uum2@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YTJOycpTs2RpPXZ0@jasmine.lan>

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 12:35:21PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> 1) To know how old the package's source code is

Oh, some more thoughts:

What about extending `guix refresh` to help with your use case, assuming
that it doesn't already?

And what about packages that aren't based on VCS, but on tarballs / zip
files? Do those need a timestamp too?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-03 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-31 19:57 Can we find a better idiom for unversioned packages? Sarah Morgensen
2021-08-31 21:20 ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-01 12:11   ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-01 16:29     ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-01 13:33   ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-01 16:39     ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-01 18:34       ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-02 14:09         ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-02 14:20           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-02 14:34             ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-01 19:48       ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-09-01 21:47         ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-02 13:32           ` Maxime Devos
2021-09-02  7:53         ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-09-02  9:25           ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-01 10:55 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-01 15:37   ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-01 16:50     ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-02 16:51       ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-02 17:29         ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-03 16:11           ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-03 16:35             ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-03 16:57               ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2021-09-03 20:03               ` Xinglu Chen
2021-09-04 21:00                 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-08 21:15       ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-02 17:08 ` Leo Famulari
2021-09-08 21:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-09-08 22:21 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-09-08 22:38   ` Leo Famulari
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-09-03  5:51 Sarah Morgensen
2021-09-03 21:14 Sarah Morgensen
2021-09-03 22:11 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2021-09-04 12:32   ` Taylan Kammer

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