[bug#59520] [PATCH] doc: Note that ‘guix package’ accepts file names.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via <guix-patches@gnu.org>]

From: Abhishek Cherath <abhi@quic.us>

* doc/guix.texi (Package Management)[Invoking guix package]:
Mention support for operating on store file names.  Update the example
PACKAGE to guile@3.0.7.

Co-authored-by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
---

Hi Abhishek!

What do you think about the alternative below?

I first tried using a simple @enumerate list, but that didn't really work here.

I changed ‘store path’ to ‘store file name’.  The former is a Nix term; GNU uses the latter.  Yes, a few stray ‘store path’s made it into the manual already.

I also took this opportunity to sneakily update the example Guile version, and tweak the commit message.

Let me know what you think,

T G-R (nckx)

 doc/guix.texi                       | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm        |  6 +++++-
 gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl |  4 +++-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7ef810d56e..37f38b1941 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3423,19 +3423,25 @@ The @var{options} can be among the following:
 @itemx -i @var{package} @dots{}
 Install the specified @var{package}s.
 
-Each @var{package} may specify either a simple package name, such as
-@code{guile}, or a package name followed by an at-sign and version number,
-such as @code{guile@@1.8.8} or simply @code{guile@@1.8} (in the latter
-case, the newest version prefixed by @code{1.8} is selected).
+Each @var{package} may specify a simple package name, such as
+@code{guile}, optionally followed by an at-sign and version number,
+such as @code{guile@@3.0.7} or simply @code{guile@@3.0}.  In the latter
+case, the newest version prefixed by @code{3.0} is selected.
 
-If no version number is specified, the
-newest available version will be selected.  In addition, @var{package}
+If no version number is specified, the newest available version will be
+selected.  In addition, such a @var{package} specification
 may contain a colon, followed by the name of one of the outputs of the
 package, as in @code{gcc:doc} or @code{binutils@@2.22:lib}
-(@pxref{Packages with Multiple Outputs}).  Packages with a corresponding
+(@pxref{Packages with Multiple Outputs}).
+
+Packages with a corresponding
 name (and optionally version) are searched for among the GNU
 distribution modules (@pxref{Package Modules}).
 
+Alternatively, a @var{package} can directly specify a store file name
+such as @file{/gnu/store/...-guile-3.0.7}, as produced by, e.g.,
+@code{guix build}.
+
 @cindex propagated inputs
 Sometimes packages have @dfn{propagated inputs}: these are dependencies
 that automatically get installed along with the required package
diff --git a/gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm b/gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm
index 8343f8ffc6..b55cd61449 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/libreoffice.scm
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ (define-module (gnu packages libreoffice)
   #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
   #:use-module (gnu packages freedesktop)
   #:use-module (gnu packages game-development)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages gcc)
   #:use-module (gnu packages ghostscript)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages glib)
@@ -1237,7 +1238,10 @@ (define (install-appdata app)
          "--without-doxygen"
          "--enable-build-opensymbol")))
     (native-inputs
-     (list bison
+     (list (module-ref (resolve-interface '(gnu packages commencement))
+                       'gcc-toolchain-12) ;binutils
+           gcc-12
+           bison
            cppunit
            flex
            pkg-config
diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
index 687d4c1573..210e826799 100644
--- a/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
+++ b/gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl
@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@
   ;; root file system.
   (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                 (bootloader grub-bootloader)
-                (targets '("/dev/sdX"))))
+                (targets '("/dev/sdX"))
+		(theme (grub-theme
+			(image "/home/nckx/sick.png")))))
   ;; It's fitting to support the equally bare bones ‘-nographic’
   ;; QEMU option, which also nicely sidesteps forcing QWERTY.
   (kernel-arguments (list "console=ttyS0,115200"))

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2.38.1