Re: Upstream Release Monitoring

2014-09-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > 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 b

Re: Upstream Release Monitoring

2014-09-12 Thread Andreas Enge
PS: And "guix refresh" lacks the automatic creation of the log message and the execution of "git commit" (while I would reserve the "git push" for some manual intervention).

Re: Upstream Release Monitoring

2014-09-12 Thread Andreas Enge
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 cre

Re: Upstream Release Monitoring

2014-09-11 Thread Omar Radwan
Another way might be to create a program that checks all the source repos of all the packages. When a new package source file with a higher version number gets uploaded, guix automatically builds the package and uploads it. On Sep 11, 2014 8:31 PM, "Jason Self" wrote: > With the number of package

Upstream Release Monitoring

2014-09-11 Thread Jason Self
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 dete