From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add rubygems updater.
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 21:18:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5686609E.80309@uq.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160101092803.GA19934@thebird.nl>
On 01/01/16 19:28, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 06:27:21PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote:
>> It seems there's 30 packages to be updated, out of the 107 in
>> ruby.scm. Going through each of these individually seems a little
>> tedious, can we do them in bulk somehow or do they have to be
>> committed individually? Building and testing all packages that
>> require these packages would be a start - is there any way to list
>> all dependent packages?
>>
>> gnu/packages/ruby.scm:2807:13: ruby-cutest would be upgraded from
>> 1.2.2 to 1.2.3
>> gnu/packages/ruby.scm:333:13: ruby-rspec-mocks would be upgraded
>> from 3.2.1 to 3.4.0
> (etc)
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to automatically update
> packages. Reason being that packages should be updated by someone who
> is actively using that new version. Automated tests are one thing,
> real user feedback another. Not to mention that many gems don't have
> tests ;).
I think we should update the package definitions so that more have
tests, and failing that import the library so we know it can at least be
loaded, like this:
+ `(#:phases
+ (modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (replace 'check
+ (lambda _
+ (zero? (system* "ruby" "-Ilib" "-r" "ansi")))))))
I would prefer to do this testing in an environment where only the propagated inputs are loaded, but I'm not sure how to do this. But I digress.
Do you think it would be a good idea to provide a "bleeding edge" repository so that users can more easily help with testing? Perhaps also a branch that only updates according to semantic versioning?
>
> What is useful is to generate (export) an updated package using the
> old one as an input. Or show a diff of version + SHA. That way it
> becomes reasonably easy to update packages.
I'm not sure what you mean. guix refresh has the --update flag, which
updates the version and source SHA hash in the source code - useful.
Thanks,
ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-01 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 8:27 [PATCH] Add rubygems updater Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-01 9:28 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-01 11:18 ` Ben Woodcroft [this message]
2016-01-01 11:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2016-01-01 18:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-02 0:11 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-02 20:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-03 0:50 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-03 14:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-05 13:57 ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-05 14:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-08 18:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-02 3:43 ` Pjotr Prins
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