[Nix-dev] Nix-env bugs

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Tue Apr 5 23:44:06 CEST 2011


Hi,

On 04/05/2011 11:11 PM, Vladimír Čunát wrote:

> 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!).

This is probably because all the other Pythons were marked as low 
priority.  It just so happens that I merged the modular-python branch 
today, which gets rid of all old Python versions.  So this problem 
should be gone now.

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