GNU bug report logs - #25852
Users not updating their installations of Guix

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:13:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #35 received at 25852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 16:34:34 -0500

On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:12:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
> 
> > In my opinion, the recent bug #25775 (Can't install packages after guix
> > pull) [0] exposed a sort of meta-bug: there are a significant number of
> > users who were still using the guix-daemon from 0.10.0.
> >
> > It seems unlikely that they have been updating all of root's
> > packages except for the guix package. Rather, I bet they never updated
> > root's packages at all, for ~1 year.

They could have been stuck with an old daemon if they copied the systemd
or upstart service files we provide.

That problem should be fixed by 613d0895b92c677e0639d5e77c55043e38e020c8
(build: Don't embed absolute paths in .service and .conf service
files.).
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