From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" Subject: Check for system-wide installed package update Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:57:17 +0330 Message-ID: <3e6ba7d6-8122-4ea4-9017-d81b6df5edf3@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50728) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iKQbk-0004UK-Jy for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:27:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKQbj-0008Ae-Eq for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:27:40 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:47411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKQbj-00089W-27 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:27:39 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAB521D51 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:27:38 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix@gnu.org Hi Guix, adding the package names to package list in system configuration file, we could install these packages system wide and they will be available for all users. for packages that are located in user profile, we could check for available updates using `guix pull`. but I didn't find any similar concept for system wide installed packages. is it possible to check for system wide installed packages without reconfiguring the system? PS: I need to apologies about my previous message in mailing list that was totally a mess, and my recently using mail client broke the message format. -- Regards Reza Alizadeh Majd PantherX Team