From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: GnuPG in Guix Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:41 -0500 Message-ID: <87oaogy20a.fsf@netris.org> References: <87sidsy88m.fsf@netris.org> <20150226160543.GA17433@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR2wH-0006Kj-7j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR2wD-0008BF-5O for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:33 -0500 Received: from world.peace.net ([50.252.239.5]:42858) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YR2wD-0008B2-2f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150226160543.GA17433@debian> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 26 Feb 2015 17:05:43 +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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Enge Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andreas Enge 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