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

From: Marius Bakke <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:17:42 +0200

Hartmut Goebel <[email-masked]> 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 the code.

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).

As a middle ground, perhaps we could add a "--select" argument to guix
import, e.g: "--select=REGEX    Only consider versions matching REGEX".