Re: guix pull

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 12:19:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:28:08PM +0000, Gottfried wrote:
> > But If I do a guix pull only in my user account, it would mean, as far as I
> > understand it, the root account would not get security updates?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > What should be the procedure?
> 
> As each user that you wish to update, do `guix pull` to update Guix and
> the list of available packages and services, and then do `guix upgrade`
> to actually upgrade your packages. If you use Guix System, you upgrade
> the system with `guix system reconfigure`.
> 


Note however that

sudo guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm

uses the guix of the user who is running sudo.

See 
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/de/html_node/Nach-der-Systeminstallation.html

It is therefore possible to never use root’s guix .

Regards,
Florian