I had an idea/suggestion. How about adding "guix system -u" feature to guix? So the difference between "guix system reconfigure" and "guix system -u" would be; the former does the reconfiguration cum upgrade process whereas the latter does just the upgrade process to system packages in the existing configuration.
April 15, 2019 2:48 PM, "Tobias Geerinckx-Rice" <m...@tobias.gr> wrote: > Raghav, > > Raghav Gururajan wrote: > >> It seems like, when I do "guix package -u", only packages >> installed by user are upgraded. It also seems like, when I do >> "guix system reconfigure", only system installed packages are >> upgraded. > > Yes, that's how it works. > > I gather (’…seems…’) that you didn't find this clearly explained > in the documentation? Could you suggest an improvement? > >> How to update packages in both system-profile and user-profile, >> at the same time? > > I don't know whether it's possible to (easily) apply both updates > within the same transaction from the command line. > > Unless you really need to: guix pull && guix system reconfigure … > && guix package -u …. > > Kind regards, > > T G-R