Hello, Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> while working on refreshing to a specific version (see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-06/msg00222.html) I > discovered that the updaters fall back to another updater. Is this > intended? Yes. > Concrete example (using refresh to a specific version): Package > "xlsxio" has no version 0.2.30. When trying to refresh to this > version, the github updater comes first and of course fails to get > this version. Then the generic-git updater is triggered and tries to > get the version. > > IMHO each package should be handled by a single updater. I agree with Maxime: trying out several updaters is the right one. > What do you think? > > BTW 1: There are other packages which are handled be several updaters: > If you sum up the percent valued of "guix refresh --list-updaters" you > will get about 140%. Anyhow the generic-git updater contributed with > about 30% to this amount. Heh, true. :-) > BTW 2: Which updater is used for each package is non-deterministic. Do you have an example? I’d think they’re always tried in the same order, no? Thanks, Ludo’.
