Re: The tricky case of "--localstatedir=/var"

[Andreas Enge]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 05:50:31PM +0000, Chris Marusich wrote:
> I understand why it's
> nice to have the Guix package so that you can easily work with its
> dependencies, but isn't "guix pull" the recommended way to keep your Guix
> installation up to date?

As far as I know, the only ways of getting the latest and greatest of Guix
is to use "guix pull" or a git checkout. The guix package inside guix
corresponds to a more or less random git commit after the last release,
and is only updated occasionally. In particular, the current version does
not contain all the recent security fixes. So I can only recommend against
using "guix package -i guix".

Andreas