From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>, 31611@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 01:26:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh6be509.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58db61ea-979f-418b-0eb6-a3bc12cfc2eb@crazy-compilers.com>
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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
> `guix refresh` always fetches the newest version of packages. This might
> not be desired in all cases. E.g. one might want to keep some still
> supported "major" upstream-version and not yet update to the next
> "major" version.
>
> Ludo suggested to add a property in packages that would instruct
> updaters to restrict the version search space to a given regexp.
>
> Rational: Example: KDE Plasma 5 has 5.12 as long-term-support (LTS)
> version, while 5.14 has already being released. Do easy maintenance of
> dependent packages, sticking to 5.12.x micht be desired.
>
> Original discussion:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-02/msg00055.html
Can we simply patch the KDE importer to stick with 5.12 for now?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-28 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-27 17:55 bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-28 23:26 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
2018-05-29 16:55 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-06-19 14:17 ` Marius Bakke
2018-06-20 7:38 ` Hartmut Goebel
2023-08-11 19:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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