Re: Repology and outdated packages

[Oleg Pykhalov]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[…]

> Seriously though, we could take better advantage of the tooling that we
> have: ‘guix refresh’, ‘guix graph’, and the corresponding APIs.  With
> that, we can write code that automatically tries out package updates and
> prepares patches, for instance.  We could even largely automate “update
> trains” (what we’re doing with master/staging/core-updates).

Maybe it's ok to push directly packages with #:tests #true and a low
number of triggered builds by the update.

Also, we probably should run the make check-system TESTS="XYZ" tests if
a service depends on an updated package.

Oleg.

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