Re: package updater: operate on package structs, not names?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> There are two ways to approach this: we change the Guix package names to
> closely match those of the upstream packages, or we pass the complete
> package structure to ‘latest-release’.  The latter approach would allow
> the CRAN updater to extract the appropriate name from the tarball URI.

This sounds like a good idea; I don’t think there are any good reasons
for just passing the package name.  Could you do that?

If need be, some of the CRAN packages could have a special property:

  (package
    (name "r-foo")
    ;; …
    (properties `((upstream-name . "Fo0"))))

Ludo’.