Re: checking for updates system-wide(was: very long subject)

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

Le 15 octobre 2019 19:12:33 GMT+02:00, Reza Alizadeh Majd <r.majd@pantherx.org> a écrit :
>Hi Guix, 
>
>adding the package names to package list in system configuration file,
>we 
>could 
>install these packages system wide and they will be available for all 
>users. 
>
>for packages that are located in user profile, we could check for
>available 
>updates 
>using `guix pull`.  but I didn't find any similar concept for system
>wide 
>installed 
>packages. 
>
>is it possible to check for system wide installed packages without 
>reconfiguring the 
>system? 

Hi Alizadeh,

Good to see some interaction from PantherX :)

I'm not sure I understand your question, so let me rephrase and please tell me if it's not what you wanted to ask. When you upgrade the distribution with guix pull, you can get a list of what could be upgraded using, say, guix package -n -u. Your question was, I think, how to do that for globally available packages.

If that is your question, the answer is quite simple. The set of globally installed packages is installed in a separate profile from the user profile. You can use the same command as before, specifying that other profile, to get the same result, with globally installed packages:

guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u

HTH