[debbugs-tracker] bug#34777: closed (Online package list is 3 weeks stale, but claims recent update)

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> Online package list is 3 weeks stale, but claims recent update
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> Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:22:23 -0500
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> As I write this, our online package list claims to have been updated 2
> days ago, but in fact the entries I checked are over 3 weeks stale.  The
> main package list page includes the text "(updated March 4, 2019)" near
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>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/
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> However, the entries for "linux-libre" shows the most recent kernel as
> version 4.20.7, although we updated to 4.20.8 on February 13:
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>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/page/5/
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> The "icecat" entry is also stale.  It shows version 60.5.0-guix1 as the
> latest version, although we upgraded to 60.5.1-guix1 on February 15.
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>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/I/
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>        Mark
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> Hello Mark,
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> Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > As I write this, our online package list claims to have been updated 2
> > days ago, but in fact the entries I checked are over 3 weeks stale.  The
> > main package list page includes the text "(updated March 4, 2019)" near
> > the top of the page:
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> >   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/
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> > However, the entries for "linux-libre" shows the most recent kernel as
> > version 4.20.7, although we updated to 4.20.8 on February 13:
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> >   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/packages/L/page/5/
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> I believe this is fixed by the update I made a couple of days ago.
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> Perhaps what happened is that, for the previous update, “haunt build”
> ended up using the user’s (gnu packages …) modules that happened to be
> in the load path, and those were outdated.
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> I usually run:
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>   ~/src/guix/pre-inst-env haunt build
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> precisely so the web site gets to see the current package set, but it’s
> easy to forget that.
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> An option would be to have the web site get data from an inferior,
> perhaps from ~/.config/guix/current, assuming it’s reasonably up to date
> (alternately the web site could build the latest Guix from master but
> that’d be inconvenient.)
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> Anyway, closing!
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> Ludo’.
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