From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
To: 40597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#40597] [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball, rebuild instructions.
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b207bae-2f18-eb06-d51b-0f0c92eb6d15@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello,
following the discussion in guix-devel, here is a small doc
addition to explain how binary-tarball modifications can
be built and then tested...
WDYT ?
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Vincent Legoll
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From dd961656d9bd98d11ba5e38be89cd1952fefc263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:25:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball
rebuild instructions.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention 'make update-guix-package'.
---
doc/guix.texi | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 891e2693f6..8bf4ef9b74 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jakub Kądziołka@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jack Hill@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Naga Malleswari@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Brice Waegeneire@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Vincent Legoll@*
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -736,6 +737,16 @@ guix pack -s @var{system} --localstatedir \
@xref{Invoking guix pack}, for more info on this handy tool.
+If you have local modifications you want to include in the resulting
+tarball, you have to run the following command in your modified Guix
+source tree before doing the above:
+
+@example
+make update-guix-package
+git commit -m'NOT_FOR_UPSTREAM:allow testing a modified guix-binary' \
+ gnu/packages/package-management.scm
+@end example
+
@node Requirements
@section Requirements
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2.20.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 12:34 Vincent Legoll [this message]
2020-04-13 13:41 ` [bug#40597] [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball, rebuild instructions Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-13 13:43 ` Vincent Legoll
2021-07-14 3:19 ` bug#40597: " Maxim Cournoyer
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