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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible error in the manual?
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:08:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3z2myym.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140922194854.GI4254@n0nb.us> (Nate Bargmann's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:48:54 -0500")

Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> skribis:

> Reading through the Guix manual I am in section "3.2 Invoking guix
> package" and tried the --show=package option.  I receive the following
> error from Guix:
>
>       $ guix package --show=emacs
>       guix package error: show=emacs: unrecognized option
>
> Running 'guix package --help' indeed shows no option named '--show'.
> Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ...

Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation?  Or perhaps
~/.config/guix/latest points to a pre-0.7 version?  This option appeared
in 0.7.

> Does the online Guix manual reflect unreleased features found only in
> the repository?  Or is this a superseded option and the manual is
> lagging a bit?

The on-line manual corresponds to the latest release, currently 0.7.

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-23 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 19:48 Possible error in the manual? Nate Bargmann
2014-09-23 10:08 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-09-23 11:21   ` Nate Bargmann
2014-09-23 12:20     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-23 19:01       ` Nate Bargmann

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