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Re: GnuPG in Guix


From: Mark H Weaver
Subject: Re: GnuPG in Guix
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:13:41 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> 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



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