On 05/10/2017 at 15:12 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi there, > > Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: >>> >>>> We could simply issue a warning if the version of guix currently in use >>>> is more than N hours old, on the assumption that after N hours it's >>>> likely to be stale. The default value of N might be in the range 48-96 >>>> (2-4 days). A quick perusal through the recent commit log on our master >>>> branch indicates that it's quite rare for 4 days to pass without a >>>> security update. >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>> >>> That sounds like an easy and reasonable approach. >>> >>> I wonder what would be the best place to emit this warning. Upon ‘guix >>> package -i’ maybe? >> >> Also "guix package -u" and the "guix system" commands that build >> systems. I suspect that many users run "guix pull" as their normal >> users but never think to run it as root. > > If there are no objections, I’ll push the attached patch. It sets a > default value of 7 days (which I think is already more aggressive that > what many are doing), which can be overridden with > GUIX_DISTRO_AGE_WARNING. > > Ludo’.
How about extending this ... > + (warning (G_ "Your Guix installation is getting old. Consider > +running 'guix pull' followed by '~a' to get up-to-date > +packages and security updates.\n") ... to inform the user how old the installation is?
