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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-18 22:30:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-04-18 22:57:52 +0200 |
| commit | 724311a26b5205dd5721439389ab70aab4082371 (patch) | |
| tree | ed008a2e9b709cb74b3973efbaace6d984b8333c /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | e7bf0e446553d928b2adef84a70f274f242b1b88 (diff) | |
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packages: Allow package lookups with version prefixes.
* gnu/packages.scm (find-packages-by-name): Sort MATCHING according to
'version>?'. Use 'string-prefix?' instead of 'string=?' to compare
against VERSION.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Add example and explanation.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index ad572365a8..69d65998c5 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -962,7 +962,10 @@ Install the specified @var{package}s. Each @var{package} may specify either a simple package name, such as @code{guile}, or a package name followed by a hyphen and version number, -such as @code{guile-1.8.8}. If no version number is specified, the +such as @code{guile-1.8.8} or simply @code{guile-1.8} (in the latter +case, the newest version prefixed by @code{1.8} is selected.) + +If no version number is specified, the newest available version will be selected. In addition, @var{package} may contain a colon, followed by the name of one of the outputs of the package, as in @code{gcc:doc} or @code{binutils-2.22:lib} |