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bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
From: |
Leo Famulari |
Subject: |
bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:51:18 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) |
On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:33:30AM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:12:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > > Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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.).
>
> That is right. But
>
> 1) there was no release with this "fix"
> 2) I (as distro package maintainer) didn't take this patch manually as
> it is fragile and hacky. Have you considered fresh guix installation?
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.
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- bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix, (continued)
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