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Users not updating their installations of Guix

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Message #56 received at 25852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 25852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 17:22:15 -0500

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On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 09:58:48PM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:51:18PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > This will take effect for the next release of Guix; it addresses a
> > problem that arises when somebody installs the binary release of Guix.
> > 
> > I'm not addressing downstream packages of Guix with this commit.
> 
> I'm sorry, I may not understand correctly your answer.
> 
> Are you saying that situation when user freshly installs Guix on
> system with systemd (and thus has empty /gnu/store)?

The "fix" I pushed will help anyone who does a new installation of Guix
on a Systemd or Upstart-based system, after the next release of Guix.

Specifically, it is meant to address the issue described here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html

This change won't help anyone who already is affected by that issue.

I view it as one small step towards making it probable that users will
keep their their Guix installations up to date.

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