From: myglc2@gmail.com
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: "George Clemmer" <myglc2@gmail.com>,
31786@debbugs.gnu.org, "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits"
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:47:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wouuzpsk.fsf@g1.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9gb663j.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Sat, 16 Jun 2018 00:24:32 +0200")
On 06/16/2018 at 00:24 Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>> Proposed (revised) footnote:
>>>
>>> (3) The Guix version in the Guix build is set by './bootstrap'. Thus,
>>> the version reported by './pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated
>>> by subsequent 'git pull; make' steps. To update the version (and rebuild
>>> everything), use 'git clean -dfx; ./bootstrap; ./configure; make'.
>>
>> I’m wary of adding this for similar reasons that Ludo wrote earlier. In
>> my opinion this ends up cluttering the manual with notes and what I
>> consider to be only tangentially relevant for readers of the manual.
>
> An alternative might be to change the output of “guix --version” in the
> presence of GUIX_UNINSTALLED, which is set by “pre-inst-env”. This
> could be a simple change in “show-version-and-exit” that would use
> something other than “%guix-version” when GUIX_UNINSTALLED is set.
>
> What do others think?
>
> --
> Ricardo
I like it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-19 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-11 18:01 bug#31786: 'pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated by new commits" George Clemmer
2018-06-12 13:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-12 18:28 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-12 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-13 0:51 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-13 6:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-14 1:39 ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-14 15:18 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-14 16:10 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-14 16:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-06-14 16:36 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 19:13 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 20:30 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-06-16 16:06 ` George Clemmer
2018-06-15 22:02 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 22:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-19 16:47 ` myglc2 [this message]
2018-06-16 1:35 ` George Clemmer
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