From af9af2180e0c2c2bbde48b4060c966d954e9d4ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 22:25:12 +0100 Subject: 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. --- doc/guix.texi | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/guix.texi') 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 -- cgit 1.4.1