Subject: Re: bug#44387: SLURM client version must match daemon version

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:27:54 +0100

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> At least, we should package several known-useful versions, so that
>> people can use ‘--with-input=slurm@X=slurm@Y’ (if needed) or explicitly
>> refer to the version they want in their profile.  I’ll work on that.
>
> I’ve reintroduced version 19.05:
>
>   https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=e1bd62eb5ce0f2410b2607f157989588791b43e0

Good call.  It seems like a good idea to keep older major versions
around.

There’s a similar problem with postgres, which needs (or used to need)
more than one version to upgrade existing data from an older version.

-- 
Ricardo