* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
@ 2018-05-27 17:55 Hartmut Goebel
2018-05-28 23:26 ` Marius Bakke
2023-08-11 19:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hartmut Goebel @ 2018-05-27 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 31611
`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
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
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
2018-05-29 16:55 ` Hartmut Goebel
2023-08-11 19:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2018-05-28 23:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hartmut Goebel, 31611
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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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* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
2018-05-28 23:26 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2018-05-29 16:55 ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-06-19 14:17 ` Marius Bakke
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Hartmut Goebel @ 2018-05-29 16:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Bakke, 31611
Am 29.05.2018 um 01:26 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> Can we simply patch the KDE importer to stick with 5.12 for now?
Not a good solution IMHO. For now I can also use "guix download"as a
work-around This is not comfortable, but avoids having a forgotten
"feature" in the code.
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
| Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com |
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* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
2018-05-29 16:55 ` Hartmut Goebel
@ 2018-06-19 14:17 ` Marius Bakke
2018-06-20 7:38 ` Hartmut Goebel
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Marius Bakke @ 2018-06-19 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hartmut Goebel, 31611
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Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> writes:
> Am 29.05.2018 um 01:26 schrieb Marius Bakke:
>> Can we simply patch the KDE importer to stick with 5.12 for now?
>
> Not a good solution IMHO. For now I can also use "guix download"as a
> work-around This is not comfortable, but avoids having a forgotten
> "feature" in the code.
I'm not convinced that adding a property to some 80 packages is better
than patching the importer. To me this problem seems very
importer-specific (knowing what releases are considered LTS).
As a middle ground, perhaps we could add a "--select" argument to guix
import, e.g: "--select=REGEX Only consider versions matching REGEX".
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* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
2018-06-19 14:17 ` Marius Bakke
@ 2018-06-20 7:38 ` Hartmut Goebel
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From: Hartmut Goebel @ 2018-06-20 7:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Bakke, 31611
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Am 19.06.2018 um 16:17 schrieb Marius Bakke:
> I'm not convinced that adding a property to some 80 packages is better
> than patching the importer. To me this problem seems very
> importer-specific (knowing what releases are considered LTS).
I disagree this is imported specific. Imagine we would like to provide
different still supported versions of e.g. Python (3,.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7)
or openssl (1.0 and 1.1).
> As a middle ground, perhaps we could add a "--select" argument to guix
> import, e.g: "--select=REGEX Only consider versions matching REGEX".
This would improve the current situation :-)
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Regards
Hartmut Goebel
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* bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
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
@ 2023-08-11 19:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2023-08-11 19:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hartmut Goebel; +Cc: 31611-done
Hi Hartmut,
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
It's now possible to refresh to a specific version with the '=' syntax,
as documented in 'info "(guix)Invoking guix refresh"':
E.g.:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix refresh qtbase@5=5.15.10 -> qtbase would be upgraded from 5.15.8 to 5.15.10
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Closing!
--
Thanks,
Maxim
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