From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Reza Alizadeh Majd" Subject: query for package updates Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:20:36 +0330 Message-ID: <58b65c16-f3bd-4503-9870-5d168fcbe69d@www.fastmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33519) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jAUEg-00057H-8E for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2020 02:51:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jAUEe-00036D-QF for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2020 02:51:01 -0500 Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:58905) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jAUEe-0002yz-Bd for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2020 02:51:00 -0500 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.internal [10.202.2.41]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BF721F82 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2020 02:50:58 -0500 (EST) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: help-guix mailing list Hi, I'm working on a cron job to perform `guix pull` periodically and inform users about available updates. previously it was suggested to use `guix package -u -n` to find if any update is available. the problem is that also when I run the `guix package -u` to update the profile my cron job still informs me about existence of new updates and the result of `guix package -u -n` doesn't change. could anyone help me on this matter, or an alternate solution to check if any update is available ( and get the list if it's possible )? -- Regards Reza Alizadeh Majd PantherX Team