From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 36785@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:36:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r23zc29q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k19sqpjr.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:49:28 +0200")
Hello Ludovic!
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Maxim!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> From a289eb3fd6239287d4a802fbba69abf21604591f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:11:28 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a 'Upgrading Guix' section to the 'Installation'
>> chapter.
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>>
>> This follows a discussion regarding issue #36785 (see:
>> https://bugs.gnu.org/36785).
>>
>> * doc/guix.texi (Upgrading Guix): New section.
>>
>> Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
>
> [...]
>
>> +@node Upgrading Guix
>> +@section Upgrading Guix
>> +
>> +@cindex Upgrading Guix, on a foreign distro
>
> Nitpicking: index entries are usually lower-case.
Oh! I hadn't realized this was the convention used in Guix, thanks for
pointing it out.
>> +To upgrade Guix, run:
>> +
>> +@example
>> +guix pull
>> +@end example
>
> Perhaps add:
>
> @xref{Invoking guix pull}, for more information.
>
>> +When you need to upgrade the build daemon, for instance, which runs as
>> +root, run:
>> +
>> +@example
>> +sudo -i guix pull
>> +@end example
>
> What about restating upfront that we’re talking about foreign distros
> specifically:
>
> On a foreign distro, you can upgrade the build daemon by running:
>
> @example
> sudo -i guix pull
> @end example
>
> @noindent
> followed by (assuming your distro uses the systemd service management
> tool):
>
> @example
> systemctl restart guix-daemon.service
> @end example
>
> On Guix System, upgrading the daemon is achieved by reconfiguring the
> system (@pxref{Invoking guix system, @code{guix system reconfigure}}).
>
> ?
Great additions.
> Feel free to push something along these lines.
Pushed as 5510bb01e9.
Thank you!
Maxim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-29 1:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 14:40 bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro Julien Lepiller
2019-07-25 23:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-26 6:22 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-07-26 8:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-17 22:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-17 23:33 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-18 8:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-20 8:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-20 15:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-21 12:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-23 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-23 9:00 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-23 12:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-23 14:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-24 12:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-27 15:23 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-28 17:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-29 1:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2019-09-21 12:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-18 18:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-19 8:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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