GNU bug report logs - #26608
Provide --only-substitutes flag to "guix package --upgrade"

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber <at> dustycloud.org>

Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:04:02 UTC

Severity: important

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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 26608 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 22629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Alex Sassmannshausen <alex <at> pompo.co>, 32022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:24:25 +0200

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing
> something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm:
>
>   (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available
>        %default-channels)

This is a nice idea and it makes me remember that it would be useful to
provide a way to avoid installing something that is cricitally broken,
like Debian's apt-listbugs package/facility
(https://packages.debian.org/sid/apt-listbugs).

janneke

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