bug#42814: closed (request: make guix upgrade recognize --do-not-upgrade)

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--do-not-upgrade
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regarding request: make guix upgrade recognize --do-not-upgrade
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> request: make guix upgrade recognize --do-not-upgrade
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> Tue, 11 Aug 2020 12:37:06 -0600
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> From the manual:
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>    • ‘guix search’ is an alias for ‘guix package -s’,
>    • ‘guix install’ is an alias for ‘guix package -i’,
>    • ‘guix remove’ is an alias for ‘guix package -r’,
>    • ‘guix upgrade’ is an alias for ‘guix package -u’,
>    • and ‘guix show’ is an alias for ‘guix package --show=’.
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> One option for "guix package -u" I often find myself using is 
> --do-not-upgrade. However, guix upgrade does not recognize that option.
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> When I run "guix upgrade --do-not-upgrade=ungoogled-chromium" I get the 
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> guix upgrade: error: do-not-upgrade=ungoogled-chromium: unrecognized option
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> This is a bit frustrating, because I want to be able to upgrade all my 
> profiles with the command:
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> "guix package --list-profiles | xargs -n1 guix upgrade 
> --do-not-upgrade=ungoogled-chromium"
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> But it prints the above error for every profile and doesn't actually do 
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> For now, my work-around is code like the following:
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> "for profile in $(guix package --list-profiles); do guix package -p 
> $profile --do-not-upgrade=ungoogled-chromium -u; done"
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> As you can see, this is quite a bit more complex than it needs to be.
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> So, why not have guix upgrade recognize the --do-not-upgrade option?
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> Hello,
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> > As you can see, this is quite a bit more complex than it needs to be.
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> > So, why not have guix upgrade recognize the --do-not-upgrade option?
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> Thanks for the suggestion, it has been implemented by Jakub with
> 7ba7d50f92416821ec4fc124a49d74149b6d4d33.
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> Mathieu
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