From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: How to refresh to a specific version? Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:22:28 +0100 Message-ID: <874lmvivmj.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eidv1-0004LZ-Ie for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:22:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiduw-0003LM-UX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:22:35 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:38676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiduw-0003Kh-OK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:22:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Sun, 4 Feb 2018 14:22:14 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Hartmut Goebel Cc: Guix-devel Hi, Hartmut Goebel 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=E2=80=99d be useful but it=E2=80=99s 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=E2=80=99.