[debbugs-tracker] bug#28727: closed (Profiles with intentionally out of date packages are upgraded to the newest version)

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> Hi,
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> I have a profile with address@hidden in it, and running 'guix package -u' 
> updates it to address@hidden, which isn't what I want. I cannot run 'guix 
> package -i address@hidden -u' because then it tries to install both address@hidden 
> and address@hidden, which conflicts.
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> I can workaround this using 'guix package -u; guix package -i address@hidden'. 
> That isn't ideal (wasteful downloading of substitute, extra entries in 
> the generations list, etc), but is workable for me, making this a low 
> priority bug for me.
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> Ideally, I would expect that because I specified address@hidden first, guix 
> should not try to install address@hidden However, this difficult because IIUC 
> the packages which were specified to be included are not stored 
> anywhere, and I suppose it would entail changes to the manifest format 
> also. So, how to handle this?
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> Thanks, ben
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> Hi,
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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > There’s this possibility:
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> >   guix package -u . -r python -i address@hidden
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> > I admit it’s a bit contrived though.
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> > There are several ways to address it:
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> >   1. Rename our Python 2.x package “python2”.
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> That was done long ago, so I’m closing this bug.
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> Ludo’.
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