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bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix |
Date: |
Fri, 12 May 2017 10:29:12 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> myglc2 <address@hidden> 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?
No it doesn’t, but I would argue that it unsupported. ;-)
> 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.
I would suggest:
export GUIX_DISTRO_AGE_WARNING=1000m
as a workaround. WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.