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| author | Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> | 2020-01-27 16:38:34 -0500 |
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| committer | Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> | 2020-01-27 16:41:20 -0500 |
| commit | 88c83636d5a56bd9551577139786bdd3e74852c2 (patch) | |
| tree | d78f066f9e6830d9070e3c934aec060d453d4180 | |
| parent | e6050884fdabfa6e51e6afce2041d91e60a5adec (diff) | |
guix: Update documentation for time-machine
Wait a minute, doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine... Out
of a functional package manager?
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/guix/README.md | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/guix/README.md b/contrib/guix/README.md index 4dfa1729a5..46d755886c 100644 --- a/contrib/guix/README.md +++ b/contrib/guix/README.md @@ -62,15 +62,16 @@ Likewise, to perform a bootstrapped build (takes even longer): export ADDITIONAL_GUIX_ENVIRONMENT_FLAGS='--bootstrap --no-substitutes' ``` -### Using the right Guix +### Using a version of Guix with `guix time-machine` capabilities -Once Guix is installed, deploy our patched version into your current Guix -profile. The changes there are slowly being upstreamed. +> Note: This entire section can be skipped if you are already using a version of +> Guix that has [the `guix time-machine` command][guix/time-machine]. + +Once Guix is installed, if it doesn't have the `guix time-machine` command, pull +the latest `guix`. ```sh -guix pull --url=https://github.com/dongcarl/guix.git \ - --commit=82c77e52b8b46e0a3aad2cb12307c2e30547deec \ - --max-jobs=4 # change accordingly +guix pull --max-jobs=4 # change number of jobs accordingly ``` Make sure that you are using your current profile. (You are prompted to do this @@ -80,9 +81,6 @@ at the end of the `guix pull`) export PATH="${HOME}/.config/guix/current/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH" ``` -> Note: There is ongoing work to eliminate this entire section using Guix -> [inferiors][guix/inferiors] and [channels][guix/channels]. - ## Usage ### As a Development Environment @@ -224,6 +222,7 @@ repository and will likely put one up soon. [guix/substitute-server-auth]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Substitute-Server-Authorization.html [guix/inferiors]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Inferiors.html [guix/channels]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html +[guix/time-machine]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-time_002dmachine.html [debian/guix-package]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=850644 [fanquake/guix-docker]: https://github.com/fanquake/core-review/tree/master/guix |