bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-12-10 Thread Ben Sturmfels
On 11/12/17 09:47, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> When the version numbers are the same, we cannot tell whether a variant >> is “older”, we can just tell that it’s different. Also, I find it >> useful to see the propagation stack as is currently the case. >> >> With the patch below, I get: >> >> $ ./p

bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-12-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> In this case it is not entirely clear that the existing python-requests >> package in the profile is “old”. The version looks the same and the >> hash is opaque. >> >> Would it be possible to record something about th

bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-11-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > In this case it is not entirely clear that the existing python-requests > package in the profile is “old”. The version looks the same and the > hash is opaque. > > Would it be possible to record something about the Guix version that was > used to install a package?

bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-11-24 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ben Sturmfels skribis: > >> So I think the bug is that the user interface could be more helpful here. >> It should probably either tell you what happened and what you can do to >> fix it, or offer to resolve the conflict/perform the upgrade for you. > > Would it be des

bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-11-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ben, Ben Sturmfels skribis: > So I think the bug is that the user interface could be more helpful here. > It should probably either tell you what happened and what you can do to > fix it, or offer to resolve the conflict/perform the upgrade for you. Would it be desirable or even feasible to

bug#29255: "Profile contains conflicting entries" could be more helpful

2017-11-10 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, When trying to install "python-twine", installation failed with the following error: $ guix package --install python-twine The following package will be installed: python-twine 1.9.1 /gnu/store/fh72qswc2gpj1c1xb2gm23hfs1vx4lk2-python-twine-1.9.1 guix package: error: profile conta