From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
To: John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com>
Cc: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>,
Matt <matt@excalamus.com>,
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>,
Christian Miller <christian.miller@dadoes.de>,
guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz>
Subject: Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:15:12 -0700 [thread overview]
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On 2024-03-11, John Kehayias wrote:
> 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 presume it works fine if you install from the GNU Guix binary tarball,
but not with the Debian guix packages without configuring systemd or
whatever init system to use the guix daemon provided by "guix pull".
> (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.)
As with other packages in Debian, security updates would, at least in
theory, be uploaded via Debian's security update process, like any other
package in Debian... unless you actually configure it to work like the
instructions above (e.g. add a systemd override).
At least once, I pulled patches from guix upstream into the Debian
package to resolve security issues in the Debian packages.
Just to be absolutely clear here, "guix pull" and whatnot works fine;
that part of upgrading is no different than Guix System or Guix Binary
installation on a foreign distro.
live well,
vagrant
>> > 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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-11 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-14 15:01 Feedback of the GNU Guix manual Christian Miller
2024-01-15 17:52 ` Matt
2024-01-15 22:05 ` Christian Miller
2024-01-18 19:44 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-19 21:01 ` Matt
2024-01-26 23:59 ` Matt
2024-02-18 12:35 ` Matt
2024-02-18 13:55 ` Josselin Poiret
2024-02-21 18:27 ` Matt
2024-02-21 17:20 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-21 18:36 ` Matt
2024-02-23 2:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-02-23 18:37 ` Matt
2024-03-02 13:34 ` Matt
2024-03-06 17:15 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-06 19:42 ` Matt
2024-03-06 20:52 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation Suhail Singh
2024-03-06 21:18 ` Suhail Singh
2024-03-07 17:03 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-10 11:09 ` doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation) Matt
2024-03-10 20:42 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-03-10 23:21 ` Suhail Singh
2024-03-11 1:58 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-03-11 4:27 ` John Kehayias
2024-03-11 19:15 ` Vagrant Cascadian [this message]
2024-03-11 15:54 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-16 10:47 ` Matt
2024-03-16 14:05 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-17 17:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-06 21:29 ` doc: Removing much of Binary Installation (was: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) Vagrant Cascadian
2024-04-10 14:05 ` Fix grammar and markup (was " Matt
2024-04-11 12:59 ` Christian Miller
2024-04-12 14:41 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-12 19:18 ` Matt
2024-04-13 12:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-14 7:00 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-19 14:09 ` Creating a documentation team? Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-19 15:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-04-19 17:32 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-20 8:33 ` Matt
2024-05-01 20:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-05-02 9:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-12 20:16 ` Fix grammar and markup (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual) Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-13 8:22 ` Matt
2024-04-13 11:26 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-14 14:50 ` Matt
2024-04-15 12:58 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-15 18:39 ` Matt
2024-04-16 6:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-18 17:15 ` Matt
2024-04-19 20:56 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-04-20 8:36 ` Matt
2024-04-17 18:08 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-04-22 18:25 ` [PATCH] Fix typo (Re: " Matt
2024-04-22 22:43 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-05-07 19:41 ` [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was " Matt
2024-05-07 20:41 ` Vagrant Cascadian
2024-05-10 9:57 ` Matt
2024-05-11 8:14 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-05-26 19:47 ` Matt
2024-08-09 11:03 ` (No) new profiles section in the manual (was Re: [PATCH] doc: Clarify need to update search paths on foreign distro (was Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)) pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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