[bug#33318] [PATCH] doc: Add cindex & command to show versions of dependencies

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Looking at the status of old patches, I hit this one patch#33318:

    <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33318>

Thanks for the patch.


On Thu, 08 Nov 2018 at 17:00, swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> wrote:

> +@cindex producing the binary guix tarball
>  The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply
>  by running the following command in the Guix source tree:
>
> @@ -743,8 +745,15 @@ make check TESTS="tests/base64.scm" SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS="--brief=no"
>  Upon failure, please email @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org} and attach the
>  @file{test-suite.log} file.  Please specify the Guix version being used
>  as well as version numbers of the dependencies (@pxref{Requirements}) in
> -your message.
> +your message, e.g. by running this command:
>
> +@example
> +guile --version | head -1 && guix --version | head -1 && \
> +gcc --version | head -1 && echo -n ``libgcrypt `` && \
> +libgcrypt-config --version && make --version | head -1
> +@end example

Well, I do not know if this example is really useful.

I mean, if one is able to successfully run ’make’ without running before
“guix shell -D guix”, then this person probably already know how to
provide the versions of the dependencies, I guess. :-)

Moreover, such failures are rare so once the bug report open, we can ask
more details if the initial report does not contain enough.

I propose to close this submission without applying.  WDYT?


Cheers,
simon