Re: GnuPG in Guix

[Andreas Enge]

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").

Andreas