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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-03-13 22:25:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2021-03-17 12:03:24 +0100 |
| commit | af9af2180e0c2c2bbde48b4060c966d954e9d4ff (patch) | |
| tree | 35cec9af3b21983825b8f42f9d802c6db818a62c /doc | |
| parent | 1d5a946ce506adc4196aa46032350eb2c7e68d09 (diff) | |
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gnu-maintenance: Add 'generic-html' updater.
This brings total updater coverage, as reported by 'guix refresh
--list-updaters', from 78% to 88.3%. Among many other things, it covers
freedesktop.org packages.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (html-updatable-package?)
(latest-html-updatable-release): New procedures.
(%generic-html-updater): New variable.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 51cafbcf71..db93543aa6 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -11707,6 +11707,9 @@ the updater for @uref{https://www.stackage.org, Stackage} packages. the updater for @uref{https://crates.io, Crates} packages. @item launchpad the updater for @uref{https://launchpad.net, Launchpad} packages. +@item generic-html +a generic updater that crawls the HTML page where the source tarball of +the package is hosted, when applicable. @end table For instance, the following command only checks for updates of Emacs |