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Re: guix package -u --fallback does nothing


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: guix package -u --fallback does nothing
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:27:15 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux)

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am 25.07.2017 um 11:35 schrieb Hartmut Goebel:
>> "guix package -u --fallback" when run another time does *nothing*. "guix
>> package -l" still show the old generation.
>
> "guix package --fallback -u" did the trick.
>
> Weird. I'll open a bug-report

No need: ‘-u’ takes an optional regexp.  When you type “-u --fallback”,
it takes “--fallback” as that regexp.

This is a common mistake though, so we could change ‘guix package’ to at
least emit a warning then the regexp starts with a hyphen.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.



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