On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:31:00PM -0700, Jason Self wrote: > With the number of packages available using Guix (and it seems to keep > increasing) keeping up on the latest upstream versions manually is > gonna be a pain. :) Shouldn't the checking be automated in some way? > One idea might be to create a bug in the GNU Bug Tracker when a new > upstream release is detected.
There is already "guix refresh", but so far it works only for gnu packages; with the parameter "-u", it even updates the version and hash, so if the source uri is written using "string-append" and "version", it can update package recipes automatically. It would be interesting to generalise this to arbitrary packages. Maybe an idea for the hackathon? Andreas
