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From: "Jakub Kądziołka" <kuba@kadziolka.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 41882@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#41882] [PATCH] channels: Allow specifying per-channel --allow-downgrades in the channel file
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 20:50:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617185027.ze5euqyuoylpewze@gravity> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfkmrqi7.fsf@gnu.org>

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> > It gets tiring to have to specify --allow-downgrades when pulling, so I
> > added a way of specifying it in the channels file. As a bonus, it's more
> > granular.
> >
> > If this is the right approach, I'll add some docs. Also, is there a test
> > that exercises this function?
> 
> I don’t think “allow-downgrade?” should be a property of <channel>,
> because conceptually it’s an unrelated piece of configuration.  So I
> think it’s configuration that belongs elsewhere, but there’s no
> configuration file for ‘guix pull’ etc.

It's a property of the channel that the git repo in question is not
monotonic ;) Also, AFAIU, the channels.scm *is* the configuration file
for guix pull, and it is the primary, if not only use of <channel>.

Regards,
Jakub Kądziołka

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-17 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-15 21:03 [bug#41882] [PATCH] channels: Allow specifying per-channel --allow-downgrades in the channel file Jakub Kądziołka
2020-06-17  9:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-17 18:50   ` Jakub Kądziołka [this message]
2020-06-18 11:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-18 23:52   ` Jakub Kądziołka
2020-06-19  0:19     ` [bug#41882] Guix configuration file? zimoun
2020-06-19  7:39       ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-19  7:52     ` [bug#41882] [PATCH] channels: Allow specifying per-channel --allow-downgrades in the channel file Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-19 12:25       ` Jakub Kądziołka
2020-06-19 20:26         ` Ludovic Courtès

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