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importer Bioconductor: no tarball, only Git

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Message #8 received at 54787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 54787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54787: importer Bioconductor: no tarball, only Git
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:15:39 +0200

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> $ guix import cran -a bioconductor CHETAH
> guix import: warning: failed to retrieve package information from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CHETAH/DESCRIPTION: 404 (Not Found)
> guix import: error: failed to download description for package 'CHETAH'
>
> The reason is because there is no source package.  Only the Git source
> repo.

We should finally switch to fetching the sources from Git.  I wonder why
we haven’t done this earlier.

I guess we should do this gradually to avoid mass updates, so perhaps we
should introduce bioconductor-git-reference and switch over packages one
by one.

What do you think?

-- 
Ricardo

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