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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix installation age warning sometimes wrong
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 10:16:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8760ehnd7m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEwRq=pK7NHcfOg7jAFTdZWUJ-daxOKvne4BNL=2AbY7tmwr0Q@mail.gmail.com> (Vincent Legoll's message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:55:31 +0200")

Hi,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Troy Sankey <sankeytms@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   guix package: warning: Your Guix installation is 125 days old.
>>   guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
>>   'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
>>
>> ...presumably because it's reading the mtime/ctime on the symlink.  Is
>> there a more precise way to asses the age of the guix installation
>> symlink?
>
> This has been discussed previously, for example in this thread:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-05/msg00123.html

Yeah currently this is based on the mtime.

Eventually I think we’ll rather check the Git commit that this
corresponds to, compared to the latest one available (though that’s
tricky since it involves making a network connection.)

So that’s what we have for now.  As long as you don’t fiddle manually
with the ‘latest’ symlink, everything should be fine; otherwise be
prepared for things like this.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-25  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-24 17:06 guix installation age warning sometimes wrong Troy Sankey
2017-07-24 17:55 ` Vincent Legoll
2017-07-25  8:16   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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