Re: Updating Guix package manager on Debian-based systems

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

David Seaward <address@hidden> skribis:

> But, if Guix can't update itself or can't perform configuration
> changes on a parent Debian system (should the need arise), then a
> deb package is definitely more suitable. Delivering it in a deb
> repository (rather than just offering a deb file to download)
> would be best, because then users would get updates easily. For
> the user it would be as simple as this...

Guix can update itself.  There are two components: each user’s Guix, and
guix-daemon (installed as root).  For the latter, you need to:

  # guix pull
  # guix package -u guix

For the former, each user should run ‘guix pull’.

HTH,
Ludo’.