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From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix package -u . --do-not-upgrade
Date: Wed, 11 May 2022 18:31:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220511183147.5c1ffe56@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ynqs7h6GYVNmh3iq@jurong>

On Tue, 10 May 2022 20:20:30 +0200
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> wrote:

> Am Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:10:42PM +0000 schrieb Gottfried:
> > guix package --upgrade . --do-not-upgrade emacs vlc knotes (Can I
> > put 3 after each other)  
> 
> Yes, that works. (In any case, you can just give it a try. If you do
> not like the result, you can always do a "guix package --roll-back"!)
> 
> Andreas
> 

You can't un-transfer the bytes though.  That matters on a metered
connection.

The better advice would be to run such commands with --dry-run, which
will print what would be done.
AFAIK it only downloads the list of substitutes, not any NARs.


      reply	other threads:[~2022-05-12 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-10 18:10 guix package -u . --do-not-upgrade Gottfried
2022-05-10 18:20 ` Andreas Enge
2022-05-11 16:31   ` raingloom [this message]

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