From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Vong Subject: Re: 2 (possible) problems in documentation Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 11:22:00 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87wpu2kaa3.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsjDW-0007ZO-2T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:22:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsjDV-0000NL-4x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:22:02 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-x22a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22a]:35525) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZsjDV-0000NF-0f for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 23:22:01 -0400 Received: by iofz202 with SMTP id z202so114873338iof.2 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2015 20:22:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wpu2kaa3.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Kost Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On 01/11/2015, Alex Kost wrote: > Alex Vong (2015-10-31 14:27 +0300) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I hit several problems when I followed the documentation. Please see >> if it is a real issue or just my misunderstandings. >> >> 1. In , >> it saids "Essential font packages include gs-fonts, font-dejavu, and >> font-gnu-freefont.". But I think "font-gnu-freefont" has been renamed >> to "font-gnu-freefont-ttf", so this has to be changed. > > I think this on-line manual is for the current version (0.8.3). The > typo you mention was fixed in the git repo: > > Thanks! I wasn't aware that the web version not being up to date. >> 2. In >> , >> it said "To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if >> you have not run make install.". However, in the case of "guix pull", >> it is not true. Even if "guix pull" does run properly, it will not >> update the source tree you have downloaded, so you end up with running >> the original compiled version of Guix. Obviously, I was a victim :) > > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. "guix pull" can't update > the source tree you downloaded. It fetches the latest guix source, > compiles it, put it to the store and link "~/.config/guix/latest" to it. > Then the Guix code from this directory when you run "guix ..." commands. > > If you use the described "pre-inst-env" method, the code from the git > directory is used instead, and running "guix pull" doesn't effect > ".../pre-inst-env guix" commands in any way. Here instead of "guix > pull" you use "git pull" and "make". > What I mean is "guix pull" only works after Guix is installed, so what the documentation says, "To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not run make install", is inaccurate. Should we note this in the documentation? > -- > Alex > Cheers, Alex