Re: All updaters are broken

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Am 03.01.23 um 10:49 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> I tried something different and perhaps simpler: making sure
>> ‘options->update-specs’ always returns a list of <update-spec>, as the
>> name implies, and does the right thing with manifests, -r, and -e.
>> (Part of the patch moves the <update-spec> definition before its first
>> use.)
>>
>> WDYT?
>
> I'm biased, as this look much like my last proposal :-) plus some good
> simplifications which I would never been able of. Esp. getting rid of
> this (package) function is good, as this function made the
> control-flow obscure,
>
> FMPOV please go ahead and merge.

Ricardo and I discussed it earlier today on IRC; I went ahead and pushed
it as 473692b812b4ab4267d9bddad0fb27787d2112ff and then submitted tests
for the CLI that would have caught these issues:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60520

Ludo’.