From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: perl-getopt-long version string contains a letter
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 20:31:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190304183140.GA5771@macbook41> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zsywpf5.fsf@elephly.net>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 05:54:38PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Guix,
>
> perl-getopt-long has a version string "v2.49.1". If we change this to
> "2.49.1", will installed packages not be upgraded? What can be done in
> this case?
>
As I've wrapped my head around it, Guix doesn't believe in "upgrades"
and "downgrades", just in changes in dependencies. So if the version
string loses the leading "v" I suppose ASCIIbetically v2.49.1 is a
higher value than 2.49.1, but Guix just sees that before it was v2.49.1
and now it's 2.50 so it's time for a change in installed files.
Just like if you never run 'guix pull' on a new system it'll continue
downgrading overtime.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-04 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-04 16:54 perl-getopt-long version string contains a letter Ricardo Wurmus
2019-03-04 18:31 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2019-03-06 15:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
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