From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: 25852-done@debbugs.gnu.org, myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:29:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lwqtr53.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgq2sj5z.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 12 May 2017 08:06:48 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>>
>>> How about extending this ...
>>>
>>>> + (warning (G_ "Your Guix installation is getting old. Consider
>>>> +running 'guix pull' followed by '~a' to get up-to-date
>>>> +packages and security updates.\n")
>>>
>>> ... to inform the user how old the installation is?
>>
>> Good idea. I did that and pushed as
>> 7fd952e05203d975fcb6cdabd2f742ade1b31b66.
>
> Does this do the right thing when .config/guix/latest points at a git
> checkout?
No it doesn’t, but I would argue that it unsupported. ;-)
> The mtime of the “.config/guix/latest” link on one of my machines is
> from 2016, so Guix says it is too old, but it points to a git
> checkout, which is recent.
I would suggest:
export GUIX_DISTRO_AGE_WARNING=1000m
as a workaround. WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-12 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-23 21:11 bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix Leo Famulari
2017-02-24 5:42 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-02 18:16 ` sirgazil
2017-03-04 20:29 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-04 22:43 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-05 7:56 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-05 9:25 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-05 9:43 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-06 14:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-07 6:54 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-06 21:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-06 21:34 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-07 6:33 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-07 19:51 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-07 20:58 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-07 22:22 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-08 6:25 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-08 8:45 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-08 9:24 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-08 18:15 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-09 7:38 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-03-09 10:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-09 12:42 ` Tomáš Čech
2017-03-09 15:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-07 7:32 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-03-07 10:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-11 1:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-10 13:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-10 14:13 ` myglc2
2017-05-10 20:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-12 6:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-05-12 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-05-12 17:10 ` myglc2
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