Hello Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel <[email protected]> writes:
> Am 26.09.2017 um 20:10 schrieb Oleg Pykhalov: >> Adonay Felipe Nogueira <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> As a personal preference, I always do: >>> >>> # guix pull && guix package -u >>> >>> ... as root, and then: >>> >>> $ guix pull && guix package -u >>> >>> ... as normal user >> I wrote a little script to not compile 2 times :-) > > What should be the use of pulling guix for both root and the user? I assume it could be very useful as Ludovic mentioned in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28699 with “channels”. So your root could have stable channel, while your user could have bleeding edge channel from my understanding. > If you symlink root's `guix` into e.g. /usr/local/bin, all users can use > root's version: > > ln -s /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix > /usr/local/bin/guix > > This is described in > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Binary-Installation > number 6. Nice tip, thanks.
