From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Installing incompatible major versions of packages alongside each other Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:14:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20160722141453.GD2882@jasmine> References: <20160719194754.254cf411@scratchpost.org> <20160720035823.GB21435@jasmine> <20160720092637.5813b122@scratchpost.org> <87d1m8d35a.fsf@gnu.org> <20160722105937.47ce9aec@scratchpost.org> <87wpkdq10t.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQbEL-0000Vc-VT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:15:13 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQbEH-0001X9-IL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:15:09 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87wpkdq10t.fsf@gnu.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" To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 03:02:10PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > For example right now I can't install icedtea-7: "guix package: error: icedtea: package not found for version 7" > > There’s no version 7, but there are other versions available: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ guix package -A icedtea > icedtea 1.13.11 out,jdk,doc gnu/packages/java.scm:196:2 > icedtea 2.6.6 out,jdk,doc gnu/packages/java.scm:598:4 > icedtea 3.0.1 out,jdk,doc gnu/packages/java.scm:768:4 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- To clarify a little more, icedtea@1 corresponds to Java 6, icedtea@2 to Java 7, and icedtea@3 to Java 8.