Re: Tracking upstream releases

[Ludovic Courtès]

Alex Kost <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès (2015-10-21 15:54 +0300) wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> We now have a number of importers, which is great, but so far we had no
>> support to update packages once they had been imported, even though most
>> of the code to do that already is in the importer.
>>
>> So commit 0a7c5a09 generalizes the upstream-tracking code from (guix
>> gnu-maintenance) a bit, such that we can then easily define “updaters”
>> based on the import code.  As an example, subsequent commits add an
>> updater for ELPA and one for CRAN.  The end result is:
>>
>>
>> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -t cran -t elpa
>> gnu/packages/statistics.scm:819:13: r-testthat would be upgraded from 0.10.0 
>> to 0.11.0
>> gnu/packages/emacs.scm:856:13: emacs-auctex would be upgraded from 11.88.6 
>> to 11.88.9
>>
>> (When ‘-t’ is omitted, all the updaters are used.)
>
> Great!  What about instead of (or along with) "-t cran -t elpa", use a
> comma separated list as it is done in "guix lint --checkers=..."?

I agree it would be more consistent (I guess I was a bit lazy here…)
Would you like to make this change?  Otherwise I can give it a go.

Thanks,
Ludo’.