Re: How to install an old package version?

2018-12-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi cdelia, > How does guix resolves de dependency tree in those cases? Say I need a > previous package X version, that depends on an earlier package Y > version that the one that is defined on the "main" guix. No “resolving” happens. Guix is a collection of Scheme variables whose values are pa

Re: How to install an old package version?

2018-12-27 Thread cdelia
Hi! real newbie to guix here! You have to make your own package for this version, that would look like this: (define-public python-2.7.10 (package (inherit python) (version "2.7.10") (source (origin (inherit (package-source python-2.7)) (uri (string-append

Re: How to install an old package version?

2016-08-12 Thread Alex Kost
Hartmut Goebel (2016-08-11 22:16 +0300) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm curious about how to install an old package version with guix. > > Example for what I mean: > > In e.g Debian, the list of available packages is separate from > apt-get (et al.). So I can query all availabl

Re: How to install an old package version?

2016-08-12 Thread 宋文武
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > I'm curious about how to install an old package version with guix. > > Example for what I mean: > > In e.g Debian, the list of available packages is separate from apt-get > (et al.). So I can query all available versions of a packag

How to install an old package version?

2016-08-11 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I'm curious about how to install an old package version with guix. Example for what I mean: In e.g Debian, the list of available packages is separate from apt-get (et al.). So I can query all available versions of a package and install the version I need: $ apt-cache madison