[bug#53818] Improving updaters and ‘guix refresh’

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> skribis:

> zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
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>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 11:35, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
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>>> How does it fail?  If it’s the GitHub rate limit, then there’s only one
>>> answer: you have to provide a token.
>
> IIUC, I have to register on GitHub to create this token. This is a bit
> sad as a prerequisite to use one core feature of Guix.

I have some good news!

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54241

Granted, it’s not a revolution, but it should fix one of the main
annoyances of ‘guix refresh’.

Regarding the “sad prerequisite”, the ‘github’ updater predates the
‘generic-git’ updater by several years, during which it was the only way
to get data for matching packages.

Actually I wonder if it’s still useful to keep.  In theory it can
provide more accurate data than the ‘generic-git’ updater; not sure if
this is the case in practice.

Ludo’.