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Re: How to refresh to a specific version?


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: How to refresh to a specific version?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 11:22:28 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> guix refresh fetches the newest version of packages. How can I refresh
> to a specific version or to the newest sub-version of a specific minor
> version?
>
> Rational: Qt has released 5.10, while 5.9 is still maintained. I want to
> refresh to the latest 5.9.x version, but not (yet) to 5.10, as the later
> might require bigger changes.

That’d be useful but it’s currently not supported.

I think one way to do that would be to add a property in packages that
would instruct updaters to restrict the version search space to a given
regexp.

Ludo’.



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