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

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
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 08:06:48 +0200

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?  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.

--
Ricardo

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