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Users not updating their installations of Guix

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25852: closed (Users not updating their installations of Guix)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 20:17:02 +0000

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:11:56 -0500

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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.

I think this is a serious documentation bug.

[0]
https://bugs.gnu.org/25775

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2 <myglc2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>,
 25852-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 22:16:42 +0200

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.

Thanks for your feedback!

Ludo’.

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