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Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem)
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem) |
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Sun, 30 Jan 2022 09:53:14 +0100 |
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Wiktor Żelazny <wz@freeshell.de> writes:
>> There are also good reasons why you wouldn’t want to upgrade your
>> default profile every time you upgrade Guix. Software in your default
>> profile may not actually build with the current version of Guix, or you
>> are perfectly happy with the version you have installed, or for
>> reproducibility reason you really want to stay with the current
>> well-known versions and only add a new independent tool…
>
> This sounds rather brittle: you need to keep things in your head.
I don’t follow. I don’t see what you’re referring to as “brittle” and
what you need to keep in your head.
> Wouldn’t it be nicer to have manifests support an additional
> (optional) field, viz. guix commit corresponding to given package, and
> manage your profile using that explicit manifest file? Or aren’t
> inferiors suitable for such purpose?
You can manage your profile with a manifest; in fact, we recommend
that. But it’s not mandatory, and that’s key here. Manifests aren’t
always the best fit.
And yes, you can use inferiors in your manifest to build a profile made
of packages from different versions of different channels explicitly.
--
Ricardo
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- Re: readline problem, Wiktor Żelazny, 2022/01/18
- Re: readline problem, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/18
- Re: readline problem, Wiktor Żelazny, 2022/01/19
- Re: readline problem, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/19
- Re: readline problem, James Smith, 2022/01/28
- Re: readline problem, Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/28
- No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem), Wiktor Żelazny, 2022/01/30
- Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem),
Ricardo Wurmus <=
- Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem), Wiktor Żelazny, 2022/01/31
- Re: No upgrade after pull, and Guix philosophy (was: readline problem), Ricardo Wurmus, 2022/01/31
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