GNU bug report logs - #28471
guix pull doesn't update the user manual

Previous Next

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 28471 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 28471 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: guix pull doesn't update the user manual
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 16:39:06 -0400

guix pull should build and install the latest documentation of Guix to
the user profile so that `info guix' always displays the current
documentation.

This seems to confuse Guix users every now and then, myself included,
and the work around of cloning a full copy of the guix sources just to
build the manual is not user friendly nor trivial.

Message #16 received at 28471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 22629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  28471 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28471: closed (Re: bug#22629: [PATCH 0/4] 'guix pull'
 produces a self-contained Guix)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 23:46:23 +0200

Hello!

>   • Meta-data about what was pulled is kept in manifest entries, using
>     the ‘properties’ discussed in <https://bugs.gnu.org/31442>.
>     Currently the UI doesn’t use it but you can see that info in
>     ~/.config/guix/current/manifest.

Commit e2f8be0664609223369f01290b69b44196783ab3 adds ‘guix pull -l’,
which produces output like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Generation 1	Jun 10 2018 00:18:18
  guix 65956ad
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 65956ad3526ba09e1f7a40722c96c6ef7c0936fe

Generation 2	Jun 11 2018 11:02:49
  guix e0cc7f6
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: e0cc7f669bec22c37481dd03a7941c7d11a64f1d

Generation 3	Jun 13 2018 23:31:07	(current)
  guix 844cc1c
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 844cc1c8f394f03b404c5bb3aee086922373490c
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

In the future it could also display information such as the number of
packages available, the number of added/upgraded packages, and so on.

Ludo’.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.