Re: guix pull

[Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de>]

thanks

is there a possibility to run a guix pull for root and for the user 
together, in order not to do it twice, because it needs quite a long 
time, compared to other Linux distros, where updating takes only some 
minutes. (Debian based distros, Manjaro, Endeavour OS and so on).

If you do a guix pull, in my case I can´t do it at the end of my work, 
because I would have to wait for finishing more than 30 minutes.

Is it not better to run a guix pull also regularly for root, in order 
that root has also updated versions...

In my understanding (as a layman) it would leave root behind and leads 
may be to inconsistency's in the guix system.


regards

Gottfried



Am 16.02.22 um 18:55 schrieb pelzflorian (Florian Pelz):
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:28:08PM +0000, Gottfried wrote:
>>> But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far as I
>>> understand it, the root account would not get security updates?
>> Correct.
>>
>>> What should be the procedure?
>> As each user that you wish to update, do `guix pull` to update Guix and
>> the list of available packages and services, and then do `guix upgrade`
>> to actually upgrade your packages. If you use Guix System, you upgrade
>> the system with `guix system reconfigure`.
>>
>
> Note however that
>
> sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>
> uses the guix of the user who is running sudo.
>
> Seehttps://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/de/html_node/Nach-der-Systeminstallation.html
>
> It is therefore possible to never use root’s guix .
>
> Regards,
> Florian