Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > The official vim mirrors only carries major versions and individual > patches, no up-to-date releases. This patch changes the source uri to > the tagged github releases instead of downloading all 40+ (so far) > patches individually. > > I'm not very happy about changing to a third-party source, but IMO it > beats keeping track of the frequent patches. WDYT?
Someone (you?) previously told me that this is not third-party but encouraged source by upstream itself. My other system (Gentoo) pulls vim from github aswell so this seems okay. I guess more systems do it this way. > From 786dc474126431c8d2b9b97644dd629f5f7aed37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 14:14:40 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: vim: Update to 8.0.0047. > > * gnu/packages/vim.scm (vim): Update to 8.0.0047. > [source]: Change to github release archive. > --- > gnu/packages/vim.scm | 9 +++++---- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/vim.scm b/gnu/packages/vim.scm > index 4ee8c7d..32f9e62 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/vim.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/vim.scm > @@ -48,14 +48,15 @@ > (define-public vim > (package > (name "vim") > - (version "8.0") > + (version "8.0.0047") > (source (origin > (method url-fetch) > - (uri (string-append "ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-" > - version ".tar.bz2")) > + (uri (string-append "https://github.com/vim/vim/archive/v" > + version ".tar.gz")) > + (file-name (string-append name "-" version ".tar.gz")) > (sha256 > (base32 > - "1s34rf8089klsbdx5l0iw7vjymir0kzfrx8wb30s31wygnq29axc")))) > + "1l24pbc06970crk513a98vlr77sp6wq6d0ylviwk9nhvfz4p0cff")))) > (build-system gnu-build-system) > (arguments > `(#:test-target "test" -- ♥Ⓐ ng0 | ng0.chaosnet.org