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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Needs enhancement: "is my guix current?"
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:23:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87po7l1jqv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3b496fd-1421-3046-2c44-7a39036ac0dd@crazy-compilers.com> (Hartmut Goebel's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:20:43 +0100")

Hi,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Is the installed guix the current one, resp. the current one my guix
> knows of? Is there anyway to find out whether 20170924.19 or
> 0.13.0-6.a9468b4 is newer?
>
> guix installed:
>
>     # guix --version
>     guix (GNU Guix) 20170924.19

Nowadays a Git commit is recorded, not a date.

Currently ‘guix package’ et al. simply warn you if you haven’t run ‘guix
pull’ in seven days.  It could also check the upstream Git repo for the
latest commit, though that wouldn’t provide much more information, I
think.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-11 12:20 Needs enhancement: "is my guix current?" Hartmut Goebel
2017-12-11 13:23 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-12-12 10:56 ` Alex Vong
2017-12-12 12:54   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-12 15:55     ` Alex Vong

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