From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Updating Guix package manager on Debian-based systems Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:25:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8177zx9.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42170) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkcH-000344-Bn for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:25:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzkcG-0004Tv-Mt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Oct 2017 10:25:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Seaward's message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:24:07 -0000") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: David Seaward Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, David Seaward skribis: > But, if Guix can't update itself or can't perform configuration > changes on a parent Debian system (should the need arise), then a > deb package is definitely more suitable. Delivering it in a deb > repository (rather than just offering a deb file to download) > would be best, because then users would get updates easily. For > the user it would be as simple as this... Guix can update itself. There are two components: each user=E2=80=99s Guix= , and guix-daemon (installed as root). For the latter, you need to: # guix pull # guix package -u guix For the former, each user should run =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99. HTH, Ludo=E2=80=99.