Re: What’s next?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`!
>
> I use it too.  Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it
> or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken.
>
> I use Git when I want to hack on Guix.  Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'.
> IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is that there is no easy
> rollback.  I can live with long execution times (--fallback is fine, but
> it'd be nice if substitutes were available more often), and I can live
> with 'guix pull' causing me to get a version of guix that's broken
> somehow, but the inability to easily roll back when things go south
> makes me hesitant to run 'guix pull' regularly.

I believe this can be fixed by adding more links to “.config/guix”,
i.e. before creating “latest” it would create “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123”
and then link from there to “latest”.  On update it would create a new
link “2017-05-25:17:45:45.123” and link that to latest.  Roll back would
be a matter of pointing “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123” to “latest”.

(“latest” should be renamed to “current” to better match the intent in
this case.)

Timestamped names like this are ugly, but that’s what’s at the top of my
head.

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Ricardo

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