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Subject: Re: Needs enhancement: "is my guix current?"
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:23:20 +0100
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	(Hartmut Goebel's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:20:43 +0100")
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Hi,

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com> skribis:

> Is the installed guix the current one, resp. the current one my guix
> knows of? Is there anyway to find out whether 20170924.19 or
> 0.13.0-6.a9468b4 is newer?
>
> guix installed:
>
> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 # guix --version
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 guix (GNU Guix) 20170924.19

Nowadays a Git commit is recorded, not a date.

Currently =E2=80=98guix package=E2=80=99 et al. simply warn you if you have=
n=E2=80=99t run =E2=80=98guix
pull=E2=80=99 in seven days.  It could also check the upstream Git repo for=
 the
latest commit, though that wouldn=E2=80=99t provide much more information, I
think.

Ludo=E2=80=99.