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Re: Needs enhancement: "is my guix current?"


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: Needs enhancement: "is my guix current?"
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:23:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Hi,

Hartmut Goebel <address@hidden> skribis:

> Is the installed guix the current one, resp. the current one my guix
> knows of? Is there anyway to find out whether 20170924.19 or
> 0.13.0-6.a9468b4 is newer?
>
> guix installed:
>
>     # guix --version
>     guix (GNU Guix) 20170924.19

Nowadays a Git commit is recorded, not a date.

Currently ‘guix package’ et al. simply warn you if you haven’t run ‘guix
pull’ in seven days.  It could also check the upstream Git repo for the
latest commit, though that wouldn’t provide much more information, I
think.

Ludo’.



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