From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?What=E2=80=99s?= next? Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:35:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87wp8meed0.fsf@elephly.net> 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: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIyXm-0002YK-TY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:36:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dIyXl-0002SV-OV for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:36:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <878tlivc93.fsf@gnu.org> 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 Ludovic Courtès 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 “.config/guix”, >> i.e. before creating “latest” it would create “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123” >> and then link from there to “latest”. On update it would create a new >> link “2017-05-25:17:45:45.123” and link that to latest. Roll back would >> be a matter of pointing “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123” to “latest”. > > There would be some similarity with profiles. Should we simply use > profiles, and effectively turn ~/.config/guix/latest into a profile, > with generations etc.? That’s not a bad idea! It sure beats messing with a single link and it makes it possible to more easily manage different versions of Guix. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net