On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 05:58:08PM -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I wonder if the receipt of an application has been in the guix package > repo for some time, is there a way to rename it (while automatically > updating existing installation to the new name)? > The reason for this question is that I contributed package receipt to guix > but now I think maybe the name used should be more specific. Thanks
Yes, you can use deprecated-package: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/packages.scm?h=v1.3.0#n461 For example, as in commit 5225626ffcdc29a62e8e089abcbb3d304febd2f2: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=5225626ffcdc29a62e8e089abcbb3d304febd2f2 Installations of the deprecated package will be automatically "upgraded" to the renamed package.
