Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

I think root profile doesn't have 0 (zero) packages installed. It has guix. ;) As a personal preference, I always do: # guix pull && guix package -u ... as root, and then: $ guix pull && guix package -u ... as normal user Chris Marusich writes: > > I see. I

Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

> When alice invokes the guix command to install the hello package, the > guix command essentially translates the package definition into a > derivation, and then asks the guix-daemon (via remote procedure calls) > to build that derivation. > guix-daemon has no knowledge of the "package"

Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

Attic Hermit writes: > I use Guix, but not GuixSD, only on the non-privileged user and there's > no package installed but guix on the root user. I see. I incorrectly assumed you were using GuixSD. It sounds like you've followed the steps described in the manual under "(guix)

Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

Thanks for your reply. > You should run "guix pull" for both root and your non-privileged > user(s). The version of Guix deployed for root is the version of Guix > that will be used when running commands like "guix system reconfigure" > as root. If you don't do "guix pull" as root, then

Re: Should I upgrade root user's guix too?

Attic Hermit writes: > I use guix for using the softwares that Parabola GNU+Linux doesn't > provide. Everything works great, but I have a question on the upgrade of > guix itself. > > I regularly do `guix pull && guix package -u` in my default user, but I > rarely do it in root