From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to refresh to a specific version?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:22:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lmvivmj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d82b79ba-93b8-45ce-3b9c-0d2705bf4452@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 4 Feb 2018 14:22:14 +0100")
Hi,
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:
> guix refresh fetches the newest version of packages. How can I refresh
> to a specific version or to the newest sub-version of a specific minor
> version?
>
> Rational: Qt has released 5.10, while 5.9 is still maintained. I want to
> refresh to the latest 5.9.x version, but not (yet) to 5.10, as the later
> might require bigger changes.
That’d be useful but it’s currently not supported.
I think one way to do that would be to add a property in packages that
would instruct updaters to restrict the version search space to a given
regexp.
Ludo’.
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2018-02-04 13:22 How to refresh to a specific version? Hartmut Goebel
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