Re: Updating Packages

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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Raghav Gururajan wrote:
> I had an idea/suggestion. How about adding "guix system -u" 
> feature to guix? So the difference between "guix system 
> reconfigure" and "guix system -u" would be; the former does the 
> reconfiguration cum upgrade process whereas the latter does just 
> the upgrade process to system packages in the existing 
> configuration.

But this arbitrary distinction doesn't make sense.

The system configuration file is a configuration file.  Like any 
other configuration file on your system, if you edit it and then 
invoke a new ’guix system’, Guix will use the current version of 
that configuration, not silently fall back to an out-of-date copy. 
That's how config files work.

Unless you're sendmail, and nobody wants to be sendmail.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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