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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating guix for root
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efeib8fh.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m136uyzmib.fsf@fastmail.net>


Hi Konrad,

> However, the systemd service still launches the daemon from 
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon. So if I
> uninstall the package "guix" for the root account (see
> https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-guix@gnu.org/msg09793.html), I will
> probably remove the guix-daemon that is used on system startup.

You are right that this is a problem.  Our instructions for the binary
installation method say that this binary method works because it comes
with a pre-populated profile for the root user.

I believe we should revise these instructions, so that they take into
account the new behaviour of “guix pull”.

What do others think?

-- 
Ricardo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-28 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-28 12:47 Updating guix for root Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-28 16:45 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-08-30 15:02   ` Konrad Hinsen
2018-08-28 19:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2018-09-01 14:32   ` Ludovic Courtès

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