From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Seeking guidance regarding system roll-back and switch-generation
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:32:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lh0u3quz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m7mvxcz.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2016 01:35:40 -0700")
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Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
> Specifically, to complete the first milestone (flip symlinks and
> regenerate grub.cfg), I need to determine the paths to certain things
> like the kernel and the initrd for an arbitrary system generation. So,
> I'm not sure if I should simply parse that information from the file
> system, or if I should try to use the store to obtain that information.
> What are your thoughts?
I did not realize that we already store information like this in a
declarative form in the "parameters" file (e.g.,
/var/guix/profiles/system/parameters). Now that I know that such a
thing exists, I will look into it to see how I can use it.
--
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-22 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-17 9:22 Seeking guidance regarding system roll-back and switch-generation Chris Marusich
2016-07-17 15:27 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-07-18 12:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-18 13:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-19 8:35 ` Chris Marusich
2016-07-22 10:32 ` Chris Marusich [this message]
2016-07-22 15:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-25 6:22 ` Chris Marusich
2016-07-25 8:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
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