From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_Hi_Guix, __=0A=0Aadding_the_package_names_to_package_list_i?= =?UTF-8?Q?n_system_configuration_file,_we_could_install_these_packages_?= =?UTF-8?Q?system_wide_and_they_will_be_available_for_all_users._=0A=0Af?= =?UTF-8?Q?or_packages_that_are_located_in_user_profile,_we_could_check_?= =?UTF-8?Q?for_available_updates_using_`guix_pull`._=0A=0Abut_I_didn't_f?= =?UTF-8?Q?ind_any_similar_concept_for_system_wide_installed_packages._=0A?= =?UTF-8?Q?=0Ais_it_possible_to_check_for_system_wide_installed_packages?= =?UTF-8?Q?_without_reconfiguring_the_system=3F_=0A?= Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:21:52 +0330 Message-ID: <19e653be-6e48-4c75-9227-c2c110a8cb8d@www.fastmail.com> References: <1e98ffd7-4a2c-44d3-882d-d1b13b58c48b@pantherx.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52298) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iKTny-0000yy-E4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:52:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKTnw-0007fv-5d for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:52:30 -0400 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:40469) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iKTnu-0007fX-6w for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:52:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Julien Lepiller Cc: help-guix@gnu.org > I'm not sure I understand your question, so let me rephrase and please tell me > if it's not what you wanted to ask. When you upgrade the distribution with guix > pull, you can get a list of what could be upgraded using, say, guix package -n > -u. Your question was, I think, how to do that for globally available packages. > > If that is your question, the answer is quite simple. The set of globally > installed packages is installed in a separate profile from the user profile. > You can use the same command as before, specifying that other profile, to get > the same result, with globally installed packages: > > guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u Hi Julien, Sorry if I couldn't describe my issue well. yes thats exactly what I meant to say. so as I understand: 1. we can get list of upgradable packages using: `guix package -n -u` 2. globally available packages are located in system profile located in `/run/current-system/profile` and we can't check for upgrades just by pointing the profile location. Thanks again for your response. -- Regards Reza Alizadeh Majd PantherX Team