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Re: Fallout from recent nss-certs changes
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Felix Lechner |
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Re: Fallout from recent nss-certs changes |
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Sun, 21 Apr 2024 08:02:50 -0700 |
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 20 2024, Ian Eure wrote:
> If an operating-system’s packages includes `(specification->package
> "nss-certs")', this causes breakage, because that form selects version
> 3.98, but %base-packages includes 3.88.1, which causes an error on the
> next `guix system reconfigure' due to conflicting package versions in
> the profile.
Why does the unversioned stringy selector (specification->package
"nss-certs") resolve to a version different from the unversioned
variable nss-certs? Is that a bug?
Kind regards
Felix
P.S. I hoped to use the word "reified" but did not know how it fit in.