bug#31142: guix package --upgrade reverses the order of packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> At first sight, to me, it’s not entirely clear how to determine whether
>> something is to be upgraded in the presence of propagated inputs.
>
> I think the linked discussion suggested we checked upgrades
> recursively.  Wouldn't that work?

Maybe!  Let’s open a new bug.  :)

>> And more importantly, I think the “imperative” model is necessarily not
>> as expressive and “clean” as ‘--manifest’.  There are tradeoffs to make.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.  How do we upgrade
> declaratively?

Just ‘guix pull && guix package --manifest=my-stuff.scm’.

Ludo’.