From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: 31142@debbugs.gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org, mail@ambrevar.xyz
Subject: bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:01:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <783C112A-8BD6-4BB6-B20C-65B74F3BF649@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftr7cgfz.fsf@gnu.org>
On March 28, 2019 12:49:04 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:
>
>> This issue fixes the list order, but it was initially supposed to
>address
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-04/msg00070.html.
>>
>> In the linked conversation, the issue that was raised is that "guix
>> package --upgrade" always upgrades some (propagated?) inputs, even
>when
>> there is nothing to upgrade.
>>
>> I can still reproduce this issue on latest Guix.
>> Anyone else?
>> Shall we open a new bug?
>
>Yes, and I think we’ll close it as “wontfix”. :-)
May I ask why? It seems it'd be ideal if packages got upgraded only when needed; the false upgrades pollute the output of an upgrade and makes it less useful.
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-13 5:57 bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages Chris Marusich
2018-04-18 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-15 11:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-27 11:33 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 12:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 12:56 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 13:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 13:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-28 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-03-28 13:01 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2019-03-28 13:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
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