Install dedicated version of a package

natefabian18 commented 3 months ago

Would it be possible to specify a specific line in the download list to be of a specific version. Im trying to install a nodejs application offline and would need the LTS version of nodejs rather than the experimental. Similar to how you can install a dedicated version though the choco command with choco install nodejs --version 20.15.0

robertZaufall commented 3 months ago

It's sure possible but I did not have the usecase myself by now.

Nodejs is an easy case to do it by hand by the way.
You can download the nodejs.install-nupkg directly from the chocolatey repository, as the binaries are embedded in the file and the package has not to be modified for local storage.
nodejs.install is sufficient - you don't need the nodejs package.

gggggeorge commented 2 months ago

First, let me say ChocolateStoreCore is very cool (I was doing basically the same thing, but editing the nupkg packages myself -which is not so much fun), especially that it iterates through any dependencies.

I'm all for this as well (ability to specify a version).

Here is a real-world example, I just encountered:

I just tried downloading firefox, and ChocolateStoreCore.exe successfully gets version 127.0.2:

I go to https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/Firefox

-and the latest is actually 128.0.0, as per (released yesterday 07/09/2024):

So, to avoid this sort of ambiguity of whatever the logic is (caching, 2nd to the latest version, etc.), could we simply have the ability to indicate the (optional) version in download.txt:

firefox 128.0.0

Some reasons why:

maybe I only want version x.y.z, a few versions older than the latest/greatest.
if I mess up (I accidentally delete my "store" dir), I can just run ChocolateStoreCore.exe, and it will do exactly what it did say, three weeks ago, when I ran it -this is great for repeatability.

For context, I'm using ChocolateStoreCore.exe to create the "corrected" packages (meaning external binaries are now local downloads), in the context of a Sonatype Nexus service:

hosted: where I upload the packages created by ChocolateStoreCore.exe.
proxy: where I get packages without external binary references -from chocolatey.org
group: binds hosted & proxy together -and the group is where my local chocolatey install(s) gets their packages from, and the "group" is behind an internet firewall.

Thanks, George H. 07/10/2024 4:07pm ET

robertZaufall commented 2 months ago

Should be fixed now. Use this syntax as suggested: firefox 128.0.0 or nodejs.install 20.15.0. Please let me know if this works for you.

gggggeorge commented 2 months ago

I just tried it out, and it works great, many thanks!

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