From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 54787@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54787: importer Bioconductor: no tarball, only Git
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:15:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k2zzj9p.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868rsf23th.fsf@gmail.com>
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> $ guix import cran -a bioconductor CHETAH
> guix import: warning: failed to retrieve package information from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CHETAH/DESCRIPTION: 404 (Not Found)
> guix import: error: failed to download description for package 'CHETAH'
>
> The reason is because there is no source package. Only the Git source
> repo.
We should finally switch to fetching the sources from Git. I wonder why
we haven’t done this earlier.
I guess we should do this gradually to avoid mass updates, so perhaps we
should introduce bioconductor-git-reference and switch over packages one
by one.
What do you think?
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-11 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 11:48 bug#54787: importer Bioconductor: no tarball, only Git zimoun
2022-04-11 16:15 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-04-12 16:25 ` zimoun
2022-04-14 11:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-14 12:59 ` zimoun
2022-04-14 13:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-14 15:03 ` zimoun
2022-04-14 14:04 ` Maxime Devos
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