bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2023-08-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel writes: > `guix refresh` always fetches the newest version of packages. This might > not be desired in all cases. E.g. one might want to keep some still > supported "major" upstream-version and not yet update to the next > "major" version. > > Ludo suggested to add a

bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2018-06-20 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 19.06.2018 um 16:17 schrieb Marius Bakke: > I'm not convinced that adding a property to some 80 packages is better > than patching the importer. To me this problem seems very > importer-specific (knowing what releases are considered LTS). I disagree this is imported specific. Imagine we would

bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2018-06-19 Thread Marius Bakke
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 29.05.2018 um 01:26 schrieb Marius Bakke: >> Can we simply patch the KDE importer to stick with 5.12 for now? > > Not a good solution IMHO. For now I can also use "guix download"as a > work-around This is not comfortable, but avoids having a forgotten > "feature" in

bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2018-05-29 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 29.05.2018 um 01:26 schrieb Marius Bakke: > Can we simply patch the KDE importer to stick with 5.12 for now? Not a good solution IMHO. For now I can also use "guix download"as a work-around This is not comfortable, but avoids having a forgotten "feature" in the code. -- Regards Hartmut

bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2018-05-28 Thread Marius Bakke
Hartmut Goebel writes: > `guix refresh` always fetches the newest version of packages. This might > not be desired in all cases. E.g. one might want to keep some still > supported "major" upstream-version and not yet update to the next > "major" version. > > Ludo suggested to add a property in

bug#31611: Add a property in packages to refresh to a specific version

2018-05-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
`guix refresh` always fetches the newest version of packages. This might not be desired in all cases. E.g. one might want to keep some still supported "major" upstream-version and not yet update to the next "major" version. Ludo suggested to add a property in packages that would instruct updaters