From: swedebugia@riseup.net
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: The art of guessing a packaged downgrade version of a package
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 17:41:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4b7748a0546d99fbec6f0d591337714@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160101210959.GA11284@jasmine>
On 2016-01-01 22:09, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 09:35:40PM +0100, swedebugia@riseup.net wrote:
>> (trying to get gnupg to work knowing that ludo runs some 2.0 version)
>> ~/src/guix$ guix package -i gnupg:2.0.0 -r gnupg
>> guix package: error: package `gnupg-2.1.10' lacks output `2.0.0'
>
> Did you try `guix package -i gnupg-2.0.29`? That should put the 2.0
> series gnupg in your profile. You can even specify just 'gnupg-2.0' and
> Guix will pick the lastest available gnupg in the '2.0' series.
>
>>
>> I would like to improve this command by making it either show me the
>> valid
>> outputs (and optionally choosing one of them to install) for this
>> specific
>> package OR hint me about running:
>> guix package --show=gnupg
>
> I see the value of hints, but never an interactive command as suggested
> by a menu of valid outputs. Interactive commands break automation.
Okay. I added some hints to the error messages and will submit a patch
soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-02 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 20:35 The art of guessing a packaged downgrade version of a package swedebugia
2016-01-01 21:09 ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-02 16:41 ` swedebugia [this message]
2016-01-02 20:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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