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Re: package updater: operate on package structs, not names?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: package updater: operate on package structs, not names? |
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Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:00:03 +0200 |
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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’.