Re: [PATCH] Implement guix-package --upgrade

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Dienstag, 12. Februar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> It’s actually slightly more complex: you need to select those packages
>> that are installed and for which either a newer version is available
>> (per ‘version-string>?’, see gnu-maintenance.scm; should be moved to
>> utils.scm)
>
> This reminds me:
>    guix-package -i libjpeg
> still installs version 8d and not 9, so apparently, there is no check on 
> the version number.

Indeed, we should fix it.

> And
>    guix-package -A jpeg
> prints
>    libjpeg 9       out     gnu/packages/libjpeg.scm:27:3
>    libjpeg 8d      out     gnu/packages/libjpeg.scm:27:3
> which is strange since libjpeg-9 is indeed defined around line 27, but 
> libjpeg-8 comes later in the file.

Yes.  That’s because the record ‘libjpeg-8d’ “inherits” from the other
one, so it takes its ‘location’ field unchanged.  Currently you have to
explicitly add the ‘location’ field when inheriting:

  (location (source-properties->location (current-source-location)))

That’s inconvenient though, and perhaps ‘define-record-type*’ should be
extended to support non-inheritable fields.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.