[Nix-dev] Nix-env bugs

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:28:08PM +0200, Marc Weber wrote:
> Excerpts from Vladimír Čunát's message of Tue Apr 05 23:11:52 +0200 2011:
> > Hello,
> > it seems nix-env --upgrade is broken. I'm not sure if this was always
> > like that (my version is 1.0pre26015) but it is certainly clashing
> > with the man page. It offers downgrades by default and -A doesn't work
> > at all. For example, nix-env -u \* says upgrading `python-2.7.1' to
> > `python-2.4.6' (that is very old python!). Viric confirmed this on
> > IRC.
> I personally don't use upgrade. Its even harmfull: If a package gets
> renamed or goes away you won't notice it!

If an attribute set "gets renamed" you may not notice it ;)

Btw, I tried the same command as Vladimir, and I get the same results.