On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:15:05PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
> There is an "Update" button which tries to download and install the
> newest version of itself. I tried the button with network offline and
> it has a status message of "Network is unreachable." I don't know what
> exactly happens here when the network is reachable.

Probably, it will try to overwrite the files in /gnu/store and fail.

> The software should only be updated via Guix. Would it be possible with
> a patch to remove or disable the button?

Can you suggest it upstream?