From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: myglc2 Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?What=E2=80=99s?= next? Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 19:28:28 -0400 Message-ID: <86h903ckf7.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877f16z9eo.fsf@gnu.org> <874lwaql17.fsf@gnu.org> <20170524214539.GA26320@jasmine> <87y3tlt256.fsf@gmail.com> <87k254vh83.fsf@elephly.net> <878tlivc93.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:50265) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFU5T-00007r-Du for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 19:28:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dFU5O-0002CF-OF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 May 2017 19:28:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <878tlivc93.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 27 May 2017 12:13:12 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel On 05/27/2017 at 12:13 Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Chris Marusich writes: >> >>> Leo Famulari writes: >>> >>>> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`! >>> >>> I use it too. Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it >>> or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken. >>> >>> I use Git when I want to hack on Guix. Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'. >>> IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is that there is no easy >>> rollback. I can live with long execution times (--fallback is fine, but >>> it'd be nice if substitutes were available more often), and I can live >>> with 'guix pull' causing me to get a version of guix that's broken >>> somehow, but the inability to easily roll back when things go south >>> makes me hesitant to run 'guix pull' regularly. >> >> I believe this can be fixed by adding more links to =E2=80=9C.config/gui= x=E2=80=9D, >> i.e. before creating =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D it would create =E2=80=9C2= 017-05-24:08:21:01.123=E2=80=9D >> and then link from there to =E2=80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D. On update it woul= d create a new >> link =E2=80=9C2017-05-25:17:45:45.123=E2=80=9D and link that to latest. = Roll back would >> be a matter of pointing =E2=80=9C2017-05-24:08:21:01.123=E2=80=9D to =E2= =80=9Clatest=E2=80=9D. > > There would be some similarity with profiles. Should we simply use > profiles, and effectively turn ~/.config/guix/latest into a profile, > with generations etc.? +1