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[PATCH 00/11] Improved tooling for package updates

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>, 74542 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Christopher Baines <guix <at> cbaines.net>
Subject: [bug#74542] [PATCH v2 00/16] Improved tooling for package updates
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:30:41 +0100

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>>     While ‘guix build openssl --with-latest=openssl’ dismisses patches,
>>     what we want here instead is to preserve patches, such that what’s
>>     being built is exactly the same as what we’d get with ‘guix
>>     refresh -u openssl’.
>
> Could 'guix build openssl --with-latest' also have an option to preserve
> patches?  This has often tripped me.

It would be nice, though it might need some rework in transformation
option handle (currently one option maps to exactly one transformation).

Ludo’.

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