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. See https://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
