From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:13:03 -0400 Message-ID: <20161012141303.GB18017@jasmine> References: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKHX-0005OA-CG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:13:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKHT-0008UM-5b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:13:18 -0400 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:38574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKHR-0008Pj-Rv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:13:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org> 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" To: Christopher Allan Webber Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 06:57:28AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > I'd be for using actual upstream, or at least supplying both, so that > they're mirrors. One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us > when updates to packages are available? I've noticed that the PyPi tarballs and the "upstream site" tarballs are usually not the same thing. So, you could ask upstream what the prefer packagers use and pick that one.