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Users not updating their installations of Guix

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Message #102 received at 25852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 25852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, myglc2 <myglc2 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:29:12 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> myglc2 <myglc2 <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> How about extending this ...
>>>
>>>> +      (warning (G_ "Your Guix installation is getting old.  Consider
>>>> +running 'guix pull' followed by '~a' to get up-to-date
>>>> +packages and security updates.\n")
>>>
>>> ... to inform the user how old the installation is?
>>
>> Good idea.  I did that and pushed as
>> 7fd952e05203d975fcb6cdabd2f742ade1b31b66.
>
> Does this do the right thing when .config/guix/latest points at a git
> checkout?

No it doesn’t, but I would argue that it unsupported.  ;-)

> The mtime of the “.config/guix/latest” link on one of my machines is
> from 2016, so Guix says it is too old, but it points to a git
> checkout, which is recent.

I would suggest:

  export GUIX_DISTRO_AGE_WARNING=1000m

as a workaround.  WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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