Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> 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”. (“latest” should be renamed to “current” to better match the intent in this case.) Timestamped names like this are ugly, but that’s what’s at the top of my head. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
