Re: Shall updaters fall back to other updaters?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@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’.