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From: Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcroft@uq.edu.au>
To: 28727@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28727: Profiles with intentionally out of date packages are upgraded to the newest version
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 16:14:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96695834-ef08-db88-32b8-3b61066bb6f1@uq.edu.au> (raw)

Hi,

I have a profile with python@2 in it, and running 'guix package -u' 
updates it to python@3, which isn't what I want. I cannot run 'guix 
package -i python@2 -u' because then it tries to install both python@2 
and python@3, which conflicts.

I can workaround this using 'guix package -u; guix package -i python@2'. 
That isn't ideal (wasteful downloading of substitute, extra entries in 
the generations list, etc), but is workable for me, making this a low 
priority bug for me.

Ideally, I would expect that because I specified python@2 first, guix 
should not try to install python@3. However, this difficult because IIUC 
the packages which were specified to be included are not stored 
anywhere, and I suppose it would entail changes to the manifest format 
also. So, how to handle this?

Thanks, ben

             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-07  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-07  6:14 Ben Woodcroft [this message]
2017-10-07 19:32 ` bug#28727: Profiles with intentionally out of date packages are upgraded to the newest version Alex Kost
2017-10-09  8:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-24 16:47   ` Ludovic Courtès

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