bug#60368: [PATCH 0/2] Allow 'guix refresh' to downgrade packages when asked to

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Hartmut and all,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:

> Hi Hartmut,
>
> I figured changes from <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57460> were not
> applicable in some cases because of things that guard against
> downgrade.
>
> The following patches fix the use case where the user is explicitly
> asking for a downgrade, as in:
>
>   guix refresh guile@3.0=2.2.7
>   guix refresh -u guile=3.0.0
>
> Previously these wouldn’t do anything.

I went ahead and pushed these:

  11235dd85a refresh: Honor user-provided target version and report downgrades.
  a330bfdf5b upstream: Allow downgrades.

Thanks,
Ludo’.