From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 25852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f429kju.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170223211156.GA24382@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:11:56 -0500")
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> 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.
>
> I think this is a serious documentation bug.
I’m not sure documentation would help.
Software like Firefox handles that by calling home to know its latest
version, but I’m not sure we want to have that happen automatically.
Thoughts on how we could address this?
Following discussions at the R-B summit, I considered adding a ‘guix
health’ (or similar) command that would report things like vulnerable
software in the profile. Such a command could also suggest Guix
updates.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-06 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 21:11 bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix Leo Famulari
2017-02-24 5:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-02 18:16 ` sirgazil
2017-03-04 20:29 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-04 22:43 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-05 7:56 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-05 9:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-05 9:43 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-06 14:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-07 6:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-06 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-03-06 21:34 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-07 6:33 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-07 19:51 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-07 20:58 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-07 22:22 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-08 6:25 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-08 8:45 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-08 9:24 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-08 18:15 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-09 7:38 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-03-09 10:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-09 12:42 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-09 15:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-07 7:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-03-07 10:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-11 1:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-10 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-10 14:13 ` myglc2
2017-05-10 20:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-12 6:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-12 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-12 17:10 ` myglc2
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