Which version ?

Which version ?

[Catonano]

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There's this question

https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001

She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her

But I don't know the answer to her question

Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I reply
to her ?

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Re: Which version ?

[Catonano]

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I was probably mistaken, she's not a biologist

But I'd still like to help her

Il 21 dic 2017 8:44 AM, "Catonano" <catonano@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> There's this question
>
> https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001
>
> She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her
>
> But I don't know the answer to her question
>
> Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I
> reply to her ?
>

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Re: Which version ?

[ng0]

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Catonano transcribed 1.7K bytes:
> I was probably mistaken, she's not a biologist
> 
> But I'd still like to help her
> 
> Il 21 dic 2017 8:44 AM, "Catonano" <catonano@gmail.com> ha scritto:
> 
> > There's this question
> >
> > https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001
> >
> > She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her
> >
> > But I don't know the answer to her question
> >
> > Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I
> > reply to her ?
> >

> In #guix is there an easy way to tell what version your system is based on? I tried to guix pull from snapshots/guix-0.14.0.tar.gz and was told to try 0.13. It'd be nice to know how old this system was, so I didn't skip too many updates.

Isn't this exactly what the 'guix pull' age-of-checkout (or date-stamp) message
helps with?
I can't provide much help because I build from a git ahead of guix master, so I
really know what commit my guix was build from.
Technically the rolling release model, and guix pull (pulling 'master') should
avoid the necessity to point to a specific tarball. I can't suggest more with the
information provided.
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Re: Which version ?

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 21/12/2017 08:44, Catonano wrote:

> There's this question
> 
> https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001 
> <https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001>
> 
> She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her
> 
> But I don't know the answer to her question
> 
> Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I 
> reply to her ?

Using

   guix --version

you can get the commit ID in the Guix repository that corresponds to 
your installation (i.e. the version you got with your last `guix pull`). 
In general that commit ID does not correspond to any release, so there 
is no point in looking for something release number like 0.14.0.

If you have a local copy of the Guix repository, you can look up the 
commit ID and find a corresponding date (plus tons of more information).

Example (my current installation):

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$ git show 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da|more
commit 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Date:   Fri Dec 15 16:44:00 2017 +0100

     gnu: python-pyicu: Set python2-variant.

     This follows up on commit d65854bdda4ad5464fcd8fe6289eedc13ea82ba1, 
which
     did not fix test failures for dependents using package-with-python2.

     * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pyicu)[properties]: Set 
python2-variant.


So my last "guix pull" happened on Dec 15 or shortly thereafter.

Konrad.

Re: Which version ?

[Catonano]

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Thank you Konrad !!

I pointed Diane to your answer, i hope she'll find it useful !

2017-12-21 9:06 GMT+01:00 Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>:

> On 21/12/2017 08:44, Catonano wrote:
>
> There's this question
>>
>> https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001 <
>> https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001>
>>
>> She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her
>>
>> But I don't know the answer to her question
>>
>> Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I
>> reply to her ?
>>
>
> Using
>
>   guix --version
>
> you can get the commit ID in the Guix repository that corresponds to your
> installation (i.e. the version you got with your last `guix pull`). In
> general that commit ID does not correspond to any release, so there is no
> point in looking for something release number like 0.14.0.
>
> If you have a local copy of the Guix repository, you can look up the
> commit ID and find a corresponding date (plus tons of more information).
>
> Example (my current installation):
>
> $ guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
> Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.h
> tml>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> $ git show 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da|more
> commit 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
> Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
> Date:   Fri Dec 15 16:44:00 2017 +0100
>
>     gnu: python-pyicu: Set python2-variant.
>
>     This follows up on commit d65854bdda4ad5464fcd8fe6289eedc13ea82ba1,
> which
>     did not fix test failures for dependents using package-with-python2.
>
>     * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pyicu)[properties]: Set
> python2-variant.
>
>
> So my last "guix pull" happened on Dec 15 or shortly thereafter.
>
> Konrad.
>

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