From: cdelia@dc.uba.ar
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rolling back only a single package
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 19:15:54 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6829a91a680044771568e29a481e222f@dc.uba.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45406B3B-5E5F-4444-9679-A5DB43D9AE50@pretty.Easy.privacy>
Hi
On 2018-12-28 08:32, swedebugia wrote:
> "cdelia@dc.uba.ar" <cdelia@dc.uba.ar> skrev: (27 december 2018
> 20:52:23 CET)
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I upgraded guix a couple of days ago, installed some things and now
>> I
>> found that xmobar just keeps segfaulting.
>>
>> Switching to specific generation it's really cool, but in this case
>> would "uninstall" all the software that it's between the
>> update-generation and the current one.
>>
>> So, there is any way to just downgrade a single package (resolving
>> it
>> dependencies) with out doing a full switch?
>>
>> I guess this it's connected to
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-08/msg00028.html
>>
>> And I could also switch and then manually re install. But maybe
>> there is
>> a standard or automatic way to do it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hi.
> I highly recommend you to use the declarative way of installing
> packages instead. See the manual.
>
I'm intending to, but before that I rather install when need it, when
some pseudo complete usable system arise I'll write a declaration.
Declarative it's great, but you have to get in your head all the things
that you'll need, before even beginning ...
> You can use the former xmobar directly from the store if you have it
> or you could create an own package/channel that specifies the version
> you want.
>
Well... I never GC nor delete generations. So it should be possible.
But I believe that's a temporal work around that should not be used.
If I don't delete the generation that holds the earlier working version,
I could do that,
but then I'll need to use the full path in the store or a symblink
manually created.
I think that kind of stuff it's a tiny, but accumulative step towards
chaos. And I'm using git to scape from it XD
> The best thing though is to report a bug and help by providing
> information e.g. by stracing it. Guide evolves quickly...
It's xmonad, a haskell app. I'm not to proficient in haskell yet to help
with that.
If I've time I'll report the bug, at least.
> --
> Sent from my p≡p for Android.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-28 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-27 19:52 rolling back only a single package cdelia
2018-12-28 7:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
[not found] ` <7bbd5b5a38121bf9a70c1fbe095c39b8@dc.uba.ar>
2018-12-28 22:19 ` cdelia
2018-12-28 11:35 ` Tonton
2018-12-30 22:57 ` cdelia
2018-12-31 15:17 ` Tonton
2018-12-28 13:34 ` Björn Höfling
2018-12-28 14:49 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-31 7:11 ` cdelia
2018-12-31 8:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-12-30 23:37 ` cdelia
2018-12-31 0:59 ` cdelia
[not found] ` <45406B3B-5E5F-4444-9679-A5DB43D9AE50@pretty.Easy.privacy>
2018-12-28 22:15 ` cdelia [this message]
2018-12-29 18:35 ` swedebugia
2018-12-30 22:40 ` Catriel Omar D'Elía
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