On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 12:21:52AM +0330, Reza Alizadeh Majd wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand your question, so let me rephrase and please tell > > me > > if it's not what you wanted to ask. When you upgrade the distribution with > > guix > > pull, you can get a list of what could be upgraded using, say, guix package > > -n > > -u. Your question was, I think, how to do that for globally available > > packages. > > > > If that is your question, the answer is quite simple. The set of globally > > installed packages is installed in a separate profile from the user > > profile. > > You can use the same command as before, specifying that other profile, to > > get > > the same result, with globally installed packages: > > > > guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u > > > Hi Julien, > > Sorry if I couldn't describe my issue well. yes thats exactly what I meant to > say. > so as I understand: > > 1. we can get list of upgradable packages using: `guix package -n -u` > > 2. globally available packages are located in system profile located > in `/run/current-system/profile` and we can't check for upgrades just by > pointing the profile location. >
This is pretty cool, I never tried doing that before. (ins)efraim@E5400 ~/workspace/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -p /run/current-system/profile -n -u The following derivation would be built: /gnu/store/mznyxwxi62ca8rlkmfbq66vb0m7wlz7p-profile.drv 2.6 MB would be downloaded: /gnu/store/qyzlsaiqfggbk0j505h4m57wyyqvjnxv-grep-3.3 /gnu/store/1gyi4i5lbpr7apm74p08dwy11fhzh4j7-sed-4.7 /gnu/store/nmy9vns5xavx4c77kij5yb85k7axx06w-findutils-4.6.0 /gnu/store/gh02bsk1w007gv4sl3b5rj18ziqgxm6f-diffutils-3.7 /gnu/store/c2vas7isbs7iwjsr7wr09iwdsw9vvy25-ed-1.15 /gnu/store/8ap398fd00xqa9ng9yzv8amkni7fzpi9-patch-2.7.6 /gnu/store/bf18yhnd9h5qlfsw8s4c849k424ph1qh-libsigsegv-2.12 /gnu/store/hn8kdxgd1yjqwmc32p4xjkzkhhw82g6f-gawk-5.0.1 The following profile hooks would be built: /gnu/store/hc51jygkiadkq8z5337jl80cpr3f8i3a-manual-database.drv /gnu/store/hn2ybg56m2qas1bz782b08yr6hpahb96-xdg-desktop-database.drv /gnu/store/j2lnvm506d9vlyksfdwnpkv1cp1n9l1c-xdg-mime-database.drv /gnu/store/nh6361wwkgncxzqbgfyl37n66c6hz1pz-fonts-dir.drv /gnu/store/q3bn0518lzmbm3mbd24r9h3flriabyxs-ca-certificate-bundle.drv /gnu/store/sl5yc24v3xrbrqajfrrxszw16xnz7jns-glib-schemas.drv /gnu/store/ybqjn15ixigjfl3g0qyinvabii8iba6g-info-dir.drv -- Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted
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