From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 25852@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25852: Users not updating their installations of Guix
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:48:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k27wporb.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efy9gyr5.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 07 Mar 2017 11:35:58 +0100")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> We could simply issue a warning if the version of guix currently in use
>> is more than N hours old, on the assumption that after N hours it's
>> likely to be stale. The default value of N might be in the range 48-96
>> (2-4 days). A quick perusal through the recent commit log on our master
>> branch indicates that it's quite rare for 4 days to pass without a
>> security update.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> That sounds like an easy and reasonable approach.
>
> I wonder what would be the best place to emit this warning. Upon ‘guix
> package -i’ maybe?
Also "guix package -u" and the "guix system" commands that build
systems. I suspect that many users run "guix pull" as their normal
users but never think to run it as root.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-11 1:49 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 [this message]
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
2017-05-12 17:10 ` myglc2
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