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* bug#55854: "guix refresh" doesn't handle older versions like gtk+@2
@ 2022-06-08 17:18 Kaelyn via Bug reports for GNU Guix
  2022-06-17 13:44 ` bug#55854: [PATCH 1/2] import: Check that GNOME minor version is not a semver prerelease Liliana Marie Prikler
  2022-06-17 13:46 ` bug#55854: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Restrict gtk+ updaters to their major versions Liliana Marie Prikler
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kaelyn via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2022-06-08 17:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 55854

When attempting a mass "guix refresh -ru" of system and home profile packages, some bogus updates were encountered. One category of those is older/multiple versions of a package all being updated to the latest, as was seen with gtk+@2, libsigc++@2, and the gtkmm packages. For example:


$  guix refresh gtk+@2
gnu/packages/gtk.scm:851:13: gtk+ would be upgraded from 2.24.33 to 3.94.0


Per the IRC discussion at https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-06-08.log#185744, those packages should only be upgraded within the same major version. Maxime suggested adding a REQUIRED-MAJOR-VERSION field to such packages so they are updated correctly: https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-06-08.log#185842

(Side note: I believe gtk+ uses a numbering scheme of x.9y.0 for pre-releases of the (x+1).0.0 release; i.e. gtk+ 3.94.0 is a pre-release of gtk 4.)




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