Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add GNU acct.

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> Yes, please!
>
> Done.  By the way, thanks for showing the head of the file, it’s really
> helpful.

Thanks.

>> (Make sure ‘make sync-descriptions’ doesn’t complain.)
>
> There are other packages that complain.  I’m willing to help with this.

That’s because Karl has started reviewing the descriptions (“blurbs”).
The file has also been renamed:


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diff --git a/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm b/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm
index 1b767f3..3dd8874 100644
--- a/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm
+++ b/guix/gnu-maintenance.scm
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
   ;; This file contains package descriptions in recutils format.
   ;; See <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2013-10/msg00071.html>.
   (string->uri
-   (string-append %gnumaint-base-url "pkgdescr.txt?root=womb")))
+   (string-append %gnumaint-base-url "pkgblurbs.txt?root=womb")))
 
 (define-record-type* <gnu-package-descriptor>
   gnu-package-descriptor

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Maybe we should just wait a few more days for things to settle before
synchronizing again.

> Which should be updated in ‘core-updates’?  Will it be enough to run
> ‘guix build coreutils -n‘ (as suggested here [1]) to check?

Not even necessary: changing descriptions doesn’t affect the hash, so
all that can be done in ‘master’.

Ludo’.