[Nix-dev] Re: Auto package update script v4

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:36:08 Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> BTW please don’t add ‘meta.watchExpr’ to GNU packages as I plan to keep
>> taking care of them.  ;-)
>
> All I want is one way to check whether my any dependency of stuff I care about 
> is available in a newer version. So I will keep adding watchExpr to all files 
> stuff I care about depends on.

Well, that’s unfortunate since it’s extra clutter that’s unnecessary for
GNU packages.

> By the way: My pkgupdater script should be able to cover all the functionality 
> gnupdate has AFAICT -- once I wrote a verification script for gnu that is:-)

Then could you make it so that it doesn’t require any new meta-data for
GNU packages?  That would be great.

(This reminds me of <http://xkcd.com/224/>.  :-))

Thanks,
Ludo.