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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "guix potluck", a moveable feast
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:45:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a87yswav.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3vj84js.fsf@pobox.com>

Andy Wingo writes:

> Christopher Webber asks about breakage due to version skew between peer
> channels and channels and Guix itself.  I think I would like to just
> ignore this problem for now: if you add channels and things break
> somehow due to an update in Guix or an update in some channel, then the
> workaround is to disable channels until developers fix things.

It isn't an impossible problem to get around anyway, at least from a
channel to channel perspective... since we're building channels around
git repositories, *eventually* we could allow a channel to include
another channel as a dependency with a specific hash.  But we can work
on that once we get things working.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-02 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-31 14:44 "guix potluck", a moveable feast Andy Wingo
2017-04-01 14:50 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-01 16:01   ` ng0
2017-04-01 23:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-02  2:20   ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-02  9:24     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-04  2:20       ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-02 10:52   ` Andy Wingo
2017-04-02 14:45     ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2017-04-04 12:01     ` Ludovic Courtès

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