From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hartmut Goebel Subject: Re: How to reference external program used in shell-scripts? Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 10:03:30 +0200 Message-ID: References: <72f51f57-3d1a-15f3-458b-cf036841c15a@crazy-compilers.com> <87pnlfww2k.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:32903) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hvzs6-0003QK-TR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:03:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hvzs5-0002It-Tb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:03:34 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:59867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hvzs5-0002Gg-Lt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Aug 2019 04:03:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87pnlfww2k.fsf@elephly.net> Content-Language: en-US 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Am 08.08.19 um 16:50 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > Generally, I try to make sure that required tools are either propagated > or that references to tools are made to absolute file names. Does this make a difference in regard to updates as I described? I would expect in both cases, if a required package is updated, this package will be updated, too. Right? -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are impossible |