Re: Notes from discussion on Quality Assurance from the 10 Years of Guix event

[Tanguy LE CARROUR <tanguy@bioneland.org>]

Hi Chris,

Quoting Tanguy LE CARROUR (2022-10-05 16:01:40)
> Quoting Christopher Baines (2022-09-18 17:55:30)
> > […]
> >  - Maybe script making contributions like updating packages
> >  - Make a similar tool to Debian's how can I help
> >    - Try to avoid suggesting updating packages with lots of dependencies
> 
> `guix how-can-i-help` would be amazing! Something that would:
> - list all the packages in my current profile that can be updated,
>   sorted by number of dependent packages; and

Just to let you know that, even if I haven't written `guix
how-can-i-help` (yet), I've just written a `guix-refresh-all` that tells me:

```console
$ guix-refresh-all
gnu/packages/freedesktop.scm:2164:13: udiskie would be upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.4.2
gnu/packages/wm.scm:1584:13: sway would be upgraded from 1.6.1 to 1.7
gnu/packages/wireservice.scm:205:13: csvkit would be upgraded from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7
gnu/packages/mail.scm:610:13: neomutt would be upgraded from 20211029 to 20220429
gnu/packages/mpd.scm:445:13: cantata would be upgraded from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0
gnu/packages/mail.scm:1326:13: notmuch would be upgraded from 0.36 to 0.37
gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm:190:13: bat would be upgraded from 0.20.0 to 0.22.1
gnu/packages/wm.scm:1704:13: swaybg would be upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1.1
gnu/packages/terminals.scm:1334:13: alacritty would be upgraded from 0.9.0 to 0.16.0
gnu/packages/gnupg.scm:830:2: pinentry-gtk2 would be upgraded from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
gnu/packages/linux.scm:8793:13: wireplumber would be upgraded from 0.4.11 to 0.4.12
gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm:1059:13: libreoffice would be upgraded from 7.3.5.2 to 7.4.2.3
gnu/packages/mpd.scm:112:13: mpd would be upgraded from 0.23.8 to 0.23.10
gnu/packages/linphone.scm:801:13: linphone-desktop would be upgraded from 4.2.5 to 4.4.10
gnu/packages/messaging.scm:2171:13: profanity would be upgraded from 0.13.0 to 0.13.1
gnu/packages/gnome.scm:3060:13: libnotify would be upgraded from 0.7.9 to 0.8.1
gnu/packages/gnupg.scm:287:13: gnupg would be upgraded from 2.2.32 to 2.3.8
gnu/packages/rust-apps.scm:455:13: fd would be upgraded from 8.1.1 to 8.4.0
gnu/packages/curl.scm:66:12: curl would be upgraded from 7.79.1 to 7.85.0
gnu/packages/terminals.scm:929:13: go-github-com-junegunn-fzf would be upgraded from 0.25.0 to 0.34.0
gnu/packages/xorg.scm:1767:13: setxkbmap would be upgraded from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3
gnu/packages/file.scm:65:13: file would be upgraded from 5.41 to 5.43
gnu/packages/ncurses.scm:45:13: ncurses would be upgraded from 6.2.20210619 to 6.3
```

So now, I know what I'll do tomorrow! 😅

This is no magic scheme, it's just an alias for:

```console
$ guix package -I | awk '{print $1}' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs guix refresh 2>&1 | ag -v "already" | ag -v "failed" | ag -v "no updater" | ag -v "warning"
```

Yeah, I know… ugly! But, it does (part of) the job! 😎

Happy hacking!

-- 
Tanguy