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[PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation management

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Message #43 received at 37443-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net>, 37443-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#37443] [PATCH] scripts: pull: Add options for generation
 management
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:23:51 +0200

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 13:57, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen <at> fastmail.net> skribis:
>
> > Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Also, now that we finally have “guix install” & co., which is really
> what users expect, I feel less of an incentive for a catch-all “guix
> profile” command.
>
> Maybe we need more of these aliases, though, like “guix show”.

"guix show" would be nice.
But I did not feel a lot of enthusiasm about it. ;-)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00264.html

Something nicer should be to have aliases defined by the user.


> >  - Everything that operates on "guix" (the software, including the
> >    package definitions) starts with "itself":
> >
> >      guix itself update  (today's "guix pull")
> >      guix itself roll-back
>
> It’s a another instance where the categorization you propose makes sense
> to me, but as a command I’d have to type, it’s not something I like.

Me neither. :-)

And "guix itself" fixes implicitly the profile to
~/.config/guix/current and maybe people are doing "non-conventional"
stuff as "guix pull -p ~/.guix-profile --list-generations".

"guix pull --list-generations" should be aliased to "guix log"
"guix pull --delete-generations" -> "guix log --delete-generations"
"guix pull --switch-generations" -> "guix log --switch-generations"
"guix pull --news" -> "guix log --news"


All the best,
simon

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