per-user Guix info pages

per-user Guix info pages

[Calvin Heim]

Hi,

For each user, does 'guix pull' also pull in updated Info pages for the Guix manual? I'd like to set INFOPATH accordingly so it's not pointed at the root user's possibly outdated manual inherited from the binary installation of the package manager.

I understand that updated manual pages can be built and viewed via a local Guix checkout as described at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-03/msg00140.html by Chris Marusich: 

> To view your changes, it's helpful to add the 'guix/doc' directory from
> your local Guix checkout to your INFOPATH.  I've put the following line
> in my ~/.bash_profile to do this automatically:

> export INFOPATH="$HOME/guix/doc${INFOPATH:+:}$INFOPATH"

> That way, when you invoke 'guix info' (or 'C-h i' in Emacs), you'll see
> the updated version.  I don't know how to preview changes in real-time
> as you modify guix.texi, but if you learn how, please let me know! 
--
Calvin

Re: per-user Guix info pages

[Chris Marusich]

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Calvin Heim <calheim@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> For each user, does 'guix pull' also pull in updated Info pages for
> the Guix manual? I'd like to set INFOPATH accordingly so it's not
> pointed at the root user's possibly outdated manual inherited from the
> binary installation of the package manager.

I think the answer is "no" because I do not see any info pages installed
at ~/.config/guix/latest.  However, I have not checked the source code.

I looked at my INFOPATH, on GuixSD.  It includes
/run/current-system/profile/share/info, which does contain
guix.info.gz.  Indeed, guix is installed to my system profile, as shown
by:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system/profile --list-installed | grep guix
guix	0.14.0-9.bdf0c64	out	/gnu/store/qxwhx6f0sdkxi72kplydc0r4ba0lghri-guix-0.14.0-9.bdf0c64
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Therefore, it seems that on my system, running "guix system reconfigure"
would also update the documentation.

-- 
Chris

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