From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Niall Dooley <dooleyn@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>, Help-Guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Package Installation Queries
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:14:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170210121423.GA16355@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADS3Lq6UW38wtyMWvY8d_a0G3RcYu2_Sc2he3ZGqurxYGjMy-w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:36:54PM +0100, Niall Dooley wrote:
> I see but how often does one need to run 'guix pull' to ensure they install
> the latest available packages. Running it now installs guix as explained in
> the manual but it doesn't explain how often one needs to run it.
It depends on your answer to the security / stability trade-off.
You can bet that any update of C software includes important bug fixes
(and other language "ecosystems" are probably not much better). Only a
few exploitable bugs are discovered by their authors or "named" with
CVEs.
Of course, each update brings new bugs, but hopefully it takes a little
while to find them and invent exploits.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-10 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-08 16:24 Package Installation Queries Niall Dooley
2017-02-08 20:51 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-09 21:36 ` Niall Dooley
2017-02-10 8:55 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-18 16:22 ` Niall Dooley
2017-02-18 20:16 ` Alex Kost
2017-02-10 12:14 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-02-08 21:47 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-02-09 10:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-02-19 11:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-09 21:41 ` Niall Dooley
2017-02-19 11:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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