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[bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater
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Xinglu Chen |
Subject: |
[bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 16:17:38 +0100 |
Maxime schrieb am Sonntag der 06. Februar 2022 um 13:41 +01:
> Xinglu Chen schreef op zo 06-02-2022 om 12:50 [+0100]:
>> Because of the way ‘%updaters’ in (guix upstream) works, the Repology
>> updater is the first or second updater that is used (since it
>> technically works on ever package), but because of the limitations I
>> mentioned above, the result might not always be the best. The Repology
>> updater is mostly useful for things that don’t already have an updater,
>> e.g., ‘maven-dependency-tree’. Would it make sense to hard-code the
>> ‘%updaters’ variable and put the Repology last in the list?
>
> I would prefer not to hardcode %updaters and keep the current
> discovery mechanism, such that people can experiment with updaters
> outside a git checkout of guix and in channels.
Good point.
> FWIW it would be useful to have the same mechanism for importers.
>
> However, it might be a good idea to do some _postprocessing_ on
> the discovered list of updaters, e.g. they could be sorted on
> 'genericity' with 'stable-sort' (*):
>
> (define (genericity x)
> (cond ((it is "generic-SOMETHING") 1)
> ((it is repology) 2)
> (#true 0)))
>
> (define (less x y)
> (<= (genericity x) (genericity y)))
>
> (*) stable-sort and not sort, to preserve alphabetical ordering
> for updaters with the same genericity.
That looks like a good idea
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- [bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater, Xinglu Chen, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 0/3] Add Repology updater, Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06
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- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Xinglu Chen, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06
- [bug#53818] [PATCH 2/3] import: Add 'repology' updater., Maxime Devos, 2022/02/06