From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: GnuPG in Guix Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:05:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20150226160543.GA17433@debian> References: <87sidsy88m.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR0x3-0003uE-7f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:06:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR0wx-00026B-Lu for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:06:13 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:55121) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR0wx-00024b-Dr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:06:07 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sidsy88m.fsf@netris.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:59:05AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Apart from the issue that raised above, another issue is that one cannot > currently use "guix package -u" if one prefers to use gnupg 1.4.x, > because it will always try to update to 2.0.x, and soon it will try to > upgrade all of us to 2.1.x, which not everyone will want (at least not > right away) because it brings new incompatible changes. This is a different problem, I think: that one cannot specify packages to not upgrade on the command line. I think there may be any number of reasons to keep an older version of a package. So it would be nice if one could write something like guix package -u '*' -nu 'python-*' for instance (where "-nu" stands for "not update"). Andreas