Re: guix pull; guix package -u; sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

["Cássio Tavares" <cassio.ufg@gmail.com>]

If your window manager is only in your profile, then it won't be available
for the display manager's login. Is there a workaround for that?
Cássio
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 2:40 AM raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net> wrote:

> On Thu,  7 Apr 2022 20:40:07 +0000
> Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> > As I understood I should do a "guix pull" every week.
> >
> > But what is with "guix package -u"
> > When I did it two days ago it took 6 hours. I couldn't swich off my
> > laptop. So I can do it only when having a lot of time.
> > Normally it took approx. 30 min
> > If I don't need always the latest version, I can do it once a month
> > or once in two month
> > Is that okay?
>
> I'd recommend just skipping the few packages that take too long to
> build.
> Before upgrading, run guix package --upgrade --dry-run, and see what
> would be downloaded and what would be built locally.
> If there is something too large there, use the --do-not-upgrade flag.
> It can be given multiple times.
>
> Also sometimes the reason something is built locally is because its
> derivation failed on the substitute server, and I think it kinda sucks
> that the user doesn't get warned about that, because building half of
> Firefox just to see it fail with the same error message as it did on
> the server is a huge waste of electricity, and also my time.
>
> > Do I have to do a "sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm"
> > always after the "guix package -u"?
> > Can I do it every month or every second month? when I don't need the
> > latest version of packages?
> >
> > Gottfried
> >
>
> I solve the latter by having a very lean system profile, only the bare
> essentials are installed for the whole system, things like the window
> manager are only in my user profile.
>
>