Re: Which version ?

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 21/12/2017 08:44, Catonano wrote:

> There's this question
>
> https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001 
> <https://octodon.social/@alienghic/99197743305578001>
>
> She's a biologist and I 'd like to help her
>
> But I don't know the answer to her question
>
> Apart from suggesting here to come on this mailing list, what could I 
> reply to her ?

Using

  guix --version

you can get the commit ID in the Guix repository that corresponds to 
your installation (i.e. the version you got with your last `guix pull`). 
In general that commit ID does not correspond to any release, so there 
is no point in looking for something release number like 0.14.0.

If you have a local copy of the Guix repository, you can look up the 
commit ID and find a corresponding date (plus tons of more information).

Example (my current installation):

$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
Copyright (C) 2017 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

$ git show 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da|more
commit 574b1d0262c0e9af8aa7bbfe4998a498f2ba23da
Author: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Dec 15 16:44:00 2017 +0100

    gnu: python-pyicu: Set python2-variant.

    This follows up on commit d65854bdda4ad5464fcd8fe6289eedc13ea82ba1, 
which
    did not fix test failures for dependents using package-with-python2.

    * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pyicu)[properties]: Set 
python2-variant.


So my last "guix pull" happened on Dec 15 or shortly thereafter.

Konrad.