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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Dominic Martinez <dom@dominicm.dev>
Cc: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>,  help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: lock files
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2022 23:18:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfk4wqr6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rlxr6c8.fsf@dominicm.dev> (Dominic Martinez's message of "Sun, 02 Oct 2022 22:20:06 -0400")

Hi,

Dominic Martinez <dom@dominicm.dev> skribis:

> jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
>
>> Does Guix have a concept of lock files?
>
> In Guix, instead of locking specific packages, you lock an entire Guix
> installation. You can see the "lock" for your current installation with
> the 'guix describe' command.

Yes.  To complement that, see:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Replicating-Guix.html

BTW, I know it’s become widespread, but I find “lock file” to be a
confusing term (and indeed, Ricardo understood the historical meaning of
that term).  “Version pinning” sounds like a more accurate description
of the concept to me.

HTH!

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-03 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-03  1:35 lock files jgart
2022-10-03  2:20 ` Dominic Martinez
2022-10-03 21:18   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-10-03  8:44 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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