From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: [PATCH 1/1] doc: Show how to deploy any version of Guix. Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:28:27 -0500 Message-ID: <0faa6e56c14c35f47b63ff0ec5a51279bbd79ee6.1484692102.git.leo@famulari.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41650) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTcF4-0006iy-6x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:28:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTcF1-0005NJ-1j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:28:38 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:44506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cTcF0-0005N1-Ni for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:28:34 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (c-73-188-17-148.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [73.188.17.148]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C2E747E057 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:28:33 -0500 (EST) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Give some examples of how to deploy arbitrary Guix versions with the --url option. --- doc/guix.texi | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index bf9dbaa72..6a4bd642b 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@* @@ -2336,6 +2336,20 @@ Download the source tarball of Guix from @var{url}. By default, the tarball is taken from its canonical address at @code{gnu.org}, for the stable branch of Guix. +With some Git servers, this can be used to deploy any version of Guix. +For example, to download and deploy the version 0.12.0 of Guix from the +canonical Git repo: + +@example +guix pull --url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/v0.12.0.tar.gz +@end example + +It can also be used to deploy arbitrary Git revisions: + +@example +guix pull --url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/74d862e8a.tar.gz +@end example + @item --bootstrap Use the bootstrap Guile to build the latest Guix. This option is only useful to Guix developers. -- 2.11.0