From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Isaac Subject: Re: Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:22:11 +0530 Message-ID: References: <87a8e9dbkn.fsf@dustycloud.org> <871szlpwht.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKvh-000390-3a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:54:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKvc-0005WP-Un for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:54:48 -0400 Received: from [117.218.232.8] (port=36404 helo=systemreboot.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1buKvc-0005WC-9V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:54:44 -0400 Received: from [117.192.127.155] (helo=steel) by systemreboot.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1buKvU-0000FL-Mg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 20:24:37 +0530 In-reply-to: <871szlpwht.fsf@gnu.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: "guix-devel@gnu.org" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >> One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us when updates to >> packages are available? > > =E2=80=98guix refresh=E2=80=99 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? --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX/k6rAAoJEC4l7othgCuz1w0IALDt31+8QZrNxcCZq9NppmD9 KMJ2HLjrIVlcEVlo9vpVBPplraoghqGotqUWlFE7BDxPO8Qr51ig1cmJzD7/9rk3 y/j5INfT67Z+IHKD1jcm9SRXss6VI4xXl7iV20hVLmHTjB8Yr6xfrKucO2C4F5Iy COgNoF4BmBZ0Dd7R3FLwnQqx2Cen6a+lQ/WbJYRaKLQ1soRxffJGqfiQWi+kv8K8 2CmDQIUjgenMJ7leUYMMnG5JbGKTfdFx4WJQQfqMiAAI5V3mm3ryD5d/J9gOCam4 BKD8x5BHaJ17XqGOuYzpeknuDoVOkrvq02qhPETzgzAF7z+x4iEHgoHu7Ep9Bao= =OOmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--