Re: guix installation age warning sometimes wrong

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Troy Sankey <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   guix package: warning: Your Guix installation is 125 days old.
>>   guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
>>   'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
>>
>> ...presumably because it's reading the mtime/ctime on the symlink.  Is
>> there a more precise way to asses the age of the guix installation
>> symlink?
>
> This has been discussed previously, for example in this thread:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-05/msg00123.html

Yeah currently this is based on the mtime.

Eventually I think we’ll rather check the Git commit that this
corresponds to, compared to the latest one available (though that’s
tricky since it involves making a network connection.)

So that’s what we have for now.  As long as you don’t fiddle manually
with the ‘latest’ symlink, everything should be fine; otherwise be
prepared for things like this.

Ludo’.