Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net> skribis: >>> One concern is, what about the tooling for telling us when updates to >>> packages are available? >> >> ‘guix refresh’ works for PyPI but not for arbitrary sites. > > Why not let 'guix refresh' use PyPI to detect package updates, and then > let somebody manually find the equivalent upstream tarball URI and put > it in the package definition?
The problem is that the PyPI “updater” that ‘guix refresh’ uses needs to be able to determine that a package is a “PyPI package”, which is what the ‘pypi-package?’ predicate in (guix import pypi) does. If a package uses a URL other than pypi.python.org, that predicate returns false. Ludo’.
