From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: r: Update to 3.3.1. Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 00:55:32 +0200 Message-ID: <87oa5e91nf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <874m77gpll.fsf@gnu.org> <8660rmgbgh.fsf@gmail.com> 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]:57681) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTdAT-0004u5-IA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:55:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bTdAP-000817-9s for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:55:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8660rmgbgh.fsf@gmail.com> (myglc2@gmail.com's message of "Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:41:50 -0400") 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: myglc2 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org myglc2 skribis: > I can assure you that if our users do guix pull and invisibly get a new > R release, They need to to =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 *and* =E2=80=98guix package -u= =E2=80=99. > their analyses will from time to time break. So we may want a simple > way for them to back down to a previous release. So.. I am thinking it > would make sense to keep previous versions of R in the recipe. What do > others think? I don=E2=80=99t use R myself; keeping a couple of R versions would be fine, though R packages would always be built only against the latest R. Ludo=E2=80=99.