Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

[John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>]

Hi vagrant,


On Sunday, March 10th, 2024 at 9:58 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2024-03-10, Suhail Singh wrote:
> 
> > Vagrant Cascadian vagrant@debian.org writes:
> > 
> > > but "guix pull" does not update the running guix-daemon;
> > 
> > Just to be clear, however, if one were to do =sudo -i guix pull=
> > instead, followed by =systemctl restart guix-daemon.service= it /would/
> > update the running guix-daemon on Debian, correct? Or is that not the
> > case?
> 
> 
> No, out of the box guix-daemon is provided by the Debian guix package.
> 

That means the instructions to update the guix daemon in the manual, <https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Upgrading-Guix.html> is incorrect or doesn't work? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant here?

(I know in the past some discussions have come up about older guix-daemon on foreign distros, presumably because the packages there don't get updated and a user wouldn't think to upgrade guix separately? But it seems you are saying you can't upgrade without modifying the e.g. systemd service definition? This is also important for security updates to guix itself, of course.)

> > In other words, on Debian, does the systemd unit reference
> > =/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon= ?
> 
> 
> But you could provide an override pointing at whatever guix-daemon you
> want, of course! :)
> 
> Once you do that, you may as well remove the Debian packaged guix,
> although users that have not yet run "guix pull" would need to guess
> where to find guix, as there will be no guix on PATH.
> 
> 
> live well,
> vagrant