From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:22:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cu74m4hzkkk.fsf@systemreboot.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871szlpwht.fsf@gnu.org>
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>> One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us when updates to
>> packages are available?
>
> ‘guix refresh’ works for PyPI but not for arbitrary sites.
Why not let 'guix refresh' use PyPI to detect package updates, and then
let somebody manually find the equivalent upstream tarball URI and put
it in the package definition?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-12 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 6:16 Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites Arun Isaac
2016-10-12 7:49 ` Alex Kost
2016-10-12 11:57 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-10-12 12:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 14:52 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2016-10-12 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-12 14:13 ` Leo Famulari
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