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Re: Seeking guidance regarding system roll-back and switch-generation


From: Chris Marusich
Subject: Re: Seeking guidance regarding system roll-back and switch-generation
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:32:36 -0700
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Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Specifically, to complete the first milestone (flip symlinks and
> regenerate grub.cfg), I need to determine the paths to certain things
> like the kernel and the initrd for an arbitrary system generation.  So,
> I'm not sure if I should simply parse that information from the file
> system, or if I should try to use the store to obtain that information.
> What are your thoughts?

I did not realize that we already store information like this in a
declarative form in the "parameters" file (e.g.,
/var/guix/profiles/system/parameters).  Now that I know that such a
thing exists, I will look into it to see how I can use it.

-- 
Chris

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