From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Kost Subject: Re: 2 (possible) problems in documentation Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:17:40 +0300 Message-ID: <87wpu2kaa3.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsdWv-0004Fv-Ej for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:17:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsdWr-0004oF-F1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:17:41 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x234.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::234]:34800) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsdWr-0004oA-8B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 17:17:37 -0400 Received: by lfgh9 with SMTP id h9so1603465lfg.1 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:17:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Alex Vong's message of "Sat, 31 Oct 2015 19:27:57 +0800") 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-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Vong (2015-10-31 14:27 +0300) wrote: > Hi, > > I hit several problems when I followed the documentation. Please see > if it is a real issue or just my misunderstandings. > > 1. In , > it saids "Essential font packages include gs-fonts, font-dejavu, and > font-gnu-freefont.". But I think "font-gnu-freefont" has been renamed > to "font-gnu-freefont-ttf", so this has to be changed. I think this on-line manual is for the current version (0.8.3). The typo you mention was fixed in the git repo: > 2. In > , > it said "To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if > you have not run make install.". However, in the case of "guix pull", > it is not true. Even if "guix pull" does run properly, it will not > update the source tree you have downloaded, so you end up with running > the original compiled version of Guix. Obviously, I was a victim :) Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. "guix pull" can't update the source tree you downloaded. It fetches the latest guix source, compiles it, put it to the store and link "~/.config/guix/latest" to it. Then the Guix code from this directory when you run "guix ..." commands. If you use the described "pre-inst-env" method, the code from the git directory is used instead, and running "guix pull" doesn't effect ".../pre-inst-env guix" commands in any way. Here instead of "guix pull" you use "git pull" and "make". -- Alex