From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GnuPG in Guix
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oaogy20a.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150226160543.GA17433@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:05:43 +0100")
Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:59:05AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Apart from the issue that raised above, another issue is that one cannot
>> currently use "guix package -u" if one prefers to use gnupg 1.4.x,
>> because it will always try to update to 2.0.x, and soon it will try to
>> upgrade all of us to 2.1.x, which not everyone will want (at least not
>> right away) because it brings new incompatible changes.
>
> This is a different problem, I think: that one cannot specify packages
> to not upgrade on the command line. I think there may be any number of
> reasons to keep an older version of a package. So it would be nice if
> one could write something like
> guix package -u '*' -nu 'python-*'
> for instance (where "-nu" stands for "not update").
I agree. However, in this case, I *do* want upgrades, to the latest
1.4.x that is. In fact, they are probably very important whenever they
happen.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-26 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-26 4:46 GnuPG in Guix g33k0b0y .
2015-02-26 8:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-02-26 17:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-02-26 18:14 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-26 10:01 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-02-26 15:59 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-02-26 16:05 ` Andreas Enge
2015-02-26 18:13 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-02-26 16:09 ` Andreas Enge
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