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From: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>, 31611@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:38:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cfa1fb83-1c26-06db-0f12-19f894edf938@crazy-compilers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9g6n9mh.fsf@fastmail.com>


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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 :-)

-- 

Regards
Hartmut Goebel

| Hartmut Goebel          | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com               |
| www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |



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  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20  7:39 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
2018-05-29 16:55   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-06-19 14:17     ` Marius Bakke
2018-06-20  7:38       ` Hartmut Goebel [this message]
2023-08-11 19:59 ` Maxim Cournoyer

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