From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: guix installation age warning sometimes wrong Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 19:55:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <150091597988.31085.1323099914257477602@x220> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZhZt-0006eA-Lx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:55:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZhZs-0007wS-WD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:55:33 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x234.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::234]:38239) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZhZs-0007wE-RN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 13:55:32 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x234.google.com with SMTP id g6so59571555qkf.5 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2017 10:55:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <150091597988.31085.1323099914257477602@x220> 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: Troy Sankey Cc: guix-devel Hello, On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Troy Sankey 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 -- Vincent Legoll