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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: guix pull
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 18:55:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220216175503.u6zitslgnloqq2w6@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yg0yPpS4VgVTwCha@jasmine.lan>

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:28:08PM +0000, Gottfried wrote:
> > But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far as I
> > understand it, the root account would not get security updates?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > What should be the procedure?
> 
> As each user that you wish to update, do `guix pull` to update Guix and
> the list of available packages and services, and then do `guix upgrade`
> to actually upgrade your packages. If you use Guix System, you upgrade
> the system with `guix system reconfigure`.
> 


Note however that

sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

uses the guix of the user who is running sudo.

See https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/de/html_node/Nach-der-Systeminstallation.html

It is therefore possible to never use root’s guix .

Regards,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-16 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-16 16:28 guix pull Gottfried
2022-02-16 17:19 ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 17:55   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2022-02-16 19:22     ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 19:28   ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 20:27     ` Leo Famulari
2022-02-16 20:09 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 20:35   ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:36     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-02-16 20:38   ` Gottfried
2022-02-16 22:58     ` Ricardo Wurmus
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-04-09 19:38 Ghc and profile creation bug Andreas Enge
2015-04-10 16:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-12 13:38   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-12 19:00     ` Andreas Enge
2015-04-12 20:56       ` guix pull Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-16 20:07 Federico Beffa
2014-09-17  5:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-22  9:53   ` Federico Beffa
2014-09-22 11:17     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-22 17:07       ` Federico Beffa

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