From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:12:21 +0100 Message-ID: <877f429kju.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170223211156.GA24382@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckzwH-000672-Da for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:13:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckzwE-0001Dj-1c for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:13:05 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ckzwD-0001Df-Ux for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:13:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ckzwD-0003Ql-Pf for bug-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:13:01 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20170223211156.GA24382@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 23 Feb 2017 16:11:56 -0500") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Leo Famulari Cc: 25852@debbugs.gnu.org Leo Famulari 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=E2=80=99m not sure documentation would help. Software like Firefox handles that by calling home to know its latest version, but I=E2=80=99m 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 =E2=80=98guix health=E2=80=99 (or similar) command that would report things like vulnerab= le software in the profile. Such a command could also suggest Guix updates. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.