bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2020-11-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
One was added by Ludo' in commit 79501f26ab6d82c0256ff786a5dfbb52ccd3. The unrelated (CVE) or enhancement (NM integration) suggestions upthread are separate topics. Closing! Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Arne Babenhauserheide skribis: > Also it would be interesting to have an auto-update service that only > updates /run/current-system Yes, that’s what we’re talking about here, or at least what I had in mind. :-) Ludo’.

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
This is just my opinions/ideas: On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 02:29:07AM -0500, Matthew Brooks wrote: > If an automatic updater is included by default (which I think would > be a rather bad idea), it absolutely needs to be very easy for a > user to disable. Guix System should target non-power users too

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> Further, an automatic upgrade service wouldn't really add anything >> useful, since cron jobs and scripts can already be used to automate >> upgrading if one so desires. > > I disagree. We provide a whole lot of services that aren’t strictly > necessary in order to sat

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Matthew, > If an automatic updater is included by default (which I think would be > a rather bad idea), it absolutely needs to be very easy for a user to > disable. Of course. It would be as simple as removing a service from the list of default system services in the operating system config

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-16 Thread Matthew Brooks
If an automatic updater is included by default (which I think would be a rather bad idea), it absolutely needs to be very easy for a user to disable. GuixSD gives users a hell of a lot more control over the system and software and such than most other operating systems do, and that's a great stre

bug#36659: There should be an unattended upgrades service

2019-07-15 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Some users (want to) forget about regularly upgrading Guix System. There should be an unattended upgrades service. Some requirements come to mind for its configuration: 1) Some users may want their unattended upgrades service to take care just of reconfiguring from a recent checkout and some may