Subject: Re: bug#60368: [PATCH 0/2] Allow 'guix refresh' to downgrade packages when asked to
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: Hartmut Goebel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:32:30 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi Hartmut and all,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Hi Hartmut,
>
> I figured changes from <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57460> were not
> applicable in some cases because of things that guard against
> downgrade.
>
> The following patches fix the use case where the user is explicitly
> asking for a downgrade, as in:
>
>   guix refresh [email-masked]=2.2.7
>   guix refresh -u guile=3.0.0
>
> Previously these wouldn’t do anything.

I went ahead and pushed these:

  11235dd85a refresh: Honor user-provided target version and report downgrades.
  a330bfdf5b upstream: Allow downgrades.

Thanks,
Ludo’.