Re: What’s next?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`!
>>>
>>> I use it too.  Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it
>>> or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken.
>>>
>>> I use Git when I want to hack on Guix.  Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'.
>>> IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is that there is no easy
>>> rollback.  I can live with long execution times (--fallback is fine, but
>>> it'd be nice if substitutes were available more often), and I can live
>>> with 'guix pull' causing me to get a version of guix that's broken
>>> somehow, but the inability to easily roll back when things go south
>>> makes me hesitant to run 'guix pull' regularly.
>>
>> I believe this can be fixed by adding more links to “.config/guix”,
>> i.e. before creating “latest” it would create “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123”
>> and then link from there to “latest”.  On update it would create a new
>> link “2017-05-25:17:45:45.123” and link that to latest.  Roll back would
>> be a matter of pointing “2017-05-24:08:21:01.123” to “latest”.
>
> There would be some similarity with profiles.  Should we simply use
> profiles, and effectively turn ~/.config/guix/latest into a profile,
> with generations etc.?

That’s not a bad idea!  It sure beats messing with a single link and it
makes it possible to more easily manage different versions of Guix.

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Ricardo

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