Is it dangerous to run guix home/system reconfigure from an uninstalled / development Guix profile?

Is it dangerous to run guix home/system reconfigure from an uninstalled / development Guix profile?

[Nicolas Graves]

When I develop for RDE, I'd like to be able to see the result on a real
system quicker. The bootleneck here is the compilation of a new guix,
whereas I have one readily available in my development directory.

I wonder if there are any hazards to using a development version of Guix
to update one's home/system profile (other than potentially loosing the
repo/commit and not being able to go back to the same state) ?

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Best regards,
Nicolas Graves

Re: Is it dangerous to run guix home/system reconfigure from an uninstalled / development Guix profile?

[Felix Lechner via]

Hi Nicolas,

On Mon, Oct 21 2024, Nicolas Graves wrote:

> I wonder if there are any hazards to using a development version of
> Guix

Only you know what's in it!

I use my own development branch exclusively to reconfigure my systems.

Also, as an aside, does Guix recommend anything other than the official
development branch?

Kind regards
Felix

Re: Is it dangerous to run guix home/system reconfigure from an uninstalled / development Guix profile?

[Andreas Enge]

Am Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 12:21:21PM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner via:
> Also, as an aside, does Guix recommend anything other than the official
> development branch?

Is that not close to a contradictio in adiecto? If we recommended anything
else, would it not become official?

Actually I usually work on top of master; probably it would make sense
to use a team branch instead if one is interested in contributing to
that team.

Andreas

Re: Is it dangerous to run guix home/system reconfigure from an uninstalled / development Guix profile?

[Nicolas Graves]

On 2024-10-21 12:21, Felix Lechner wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Mon, Oct 21 2024, Nicolas Graves wrote:
>
>> I wonder if there are any hazards to using a development version of
>> Guix
>
> Only you know what's in it!
>
> I use my own development branch exclusively to reconfigure my systems.

Thanks for your answer Felix. IIUC, in
/var/guix/profiles/per-user/{you}, we have current-profile and
guix-home. When you update your profile using your development branch,
do you also somehow set your current-profile to your development branch?

I think that is what I want to do, and then guix home reconfigure from
there. WDYT ?

>
> Kind regards
> Felix

-- 
Best regards,
Nicolas Graves