From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Package Installation Queries Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 13:14:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20170210121423.GA16355@jasmine> References: <87a89wz9qx.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33717) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccA5z-0005Pn-To for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:14:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccA5v-0004xh-VM for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:14:35 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:40343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ccA5v-0004x1-Am for Help-Guix@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 07:14:31 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline 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: Niall Dooley Cc: Alex Kost , Help-Guix@gnu.org 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.