[Nix-dev] Nix-env bugs

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:44:06PM +0200, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> 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.

What has the lowPrio to do with "-u" wanting to *upgrade* 2.7.1 to 2.4.6?
Hasn't "-u" a strict definition based on names and version numbers?

Thank you,
Lluís.