From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix pull
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 21:09:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87leya4lmn.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <678d7b85-d8b3-6d84-b569-d3e3298ec95f@posteo.de>
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> Should I do a guix pull basically in my user account?
>
> Or should I do a guix pull basically in the root account?
>
> As far as I understood if I do a gux pull in my user account, it has
> no influence to the root account?
This is correct. As far as Guix is concerned “root” is just another
user account.
> But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far
> as I understand it, the root account would not get security updates?
Correct.
Note that “guix pull” alone doesn’t upgrade any installed packages. It
only gives you a new version of Guix which has access to updated packages.
> What should be the procedure?
You can have all users on the machine share the same guix and/or the
same profile and upgrade just that.
On a single-user system it also makes sense to just not install any
software for the root user.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-16 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-02-16 16:28 guix pull Gottfried
2022-02-16 17:19 ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 17:55 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-02-16 19:22 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 19:28 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 20:27 ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-02-16 20:35 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:36 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 20:38 ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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