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Re: guix pull
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: guix pull |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 21:09:38 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.6.10; emacs 28.0.91 |
Gottfried <gottfried@posteo.de> writes:
> Should I do a guix pull basically in my user account?
>
> Or should I do a guix pull basically in the root account?
>
> As far as I understood if I do a gux pull in my user account, it has
> no influence to the root account?
This is correct. As far as Guix is concerned “root” is just another
user account.
> 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.
Note that “guix pull” alone doesn’t upgrade any installed packages. It
only gives you a new version of Guix which has access to updated packages.
> What should be the procedure?
You can have all users on the machine share the same guix and/or the
same profile and upgrade just that.
On a single-user system it also makes sense to just not install any
software for the root user.
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Ricardo