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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2016-11-14 15:06:47 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-11-15 21:41:38 +0700
commitbb4f52d0b027ee0d254c907db053cdcf10c1b11e (patch)
tree6499d055db51a356657c85058159458dc76c9c18 /system/guix
parent2115bc19700fb4d8808ee5df2d3b89615cabfde7 (diff)
system/guix: Fix README.
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diff --git a/system/guix/README b/system/guix/README
index 4613a6ec6d36b..ee6406b70d738 100644
--- a/system/guix/README
+++ b/system/guix/README
@@ -1,24 +1,26 @@
-GNU Guix provides state-of-the-art package management features such as transactional
-upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package
-management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package
-manager, but packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the
-Scheme language—which makes it nicely hackable.
+GNU Guix provides state-of-the-art package management features such as
+transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments,
+unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level
+mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as
+native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language -- which
+makes it nicely hackable.
-Guix may be run in single or multi-user mode (which requires the guix-daemon). To
-have the guix daemon start and stop with your host, add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
+Guix may be run in single or multi-user mode (which requires the
+guix-daemon). To have the guix daemon start and stop with your host,
+add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.guix ]; then
-/etc/rc.d/rc.guix start
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.guix start
fi
and to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating it if needed):
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.guix ]; then
-/etc/rc.d/rc.guix stop
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.guix stop
fi
-The daemon requires users for building the guix packages, which should be added
-under the 'guixbuild' group.
+The daemon requires users for building the guix packages, which should
+be added under the 'guixbuild' group.
groupadd -g 316 guixbuild
for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do
@@ -28,21 +30,24 @@ for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do
guixbuilder$i;
done
-Restricting access to the daemon to only users in the guixbuild group is acheived
-by setting file permissions for the daemon's socket's folder.
+Restricting access to the daemon to only users in the guixbuild group
+is acheived by setting file permissions for the daemon's socket's folder.
chgrp guixbuild /var/guix/daemon-socket
chmod ug=rwx,o= /var/guix/daemon-socket
-Correct permissions must also be set for /var/guix/profiles to give users access.
+Correct permissions must also be set for /var/guix/profiles to give
+users access.
-By default guix will compile in /tmp, this can be changed by exporting $TMPDIR.
-Guix will also by default store its packages in /gnu/store, to save space in the
-root partition /gnu can be mounted on another partition.
+By default guix will compile in /tmp, this can be changed by exporting
+$TMPDIR. Guix will also by default store its packages in /gnu/store, to
+save space in the root partition /gnu can be mounted on another partition.
-Guix can either be built with the nix-daemon instead of the default guix-daemon or along
-side nix sharing the same store, both require nix as an optional dependency. To build with
-the nix-daemon use NIX="yes" and to share the store with nix use SHARE="yes".
+Guix can either be built with the nix-daemon instead of the default
+guix-daemon or along side nix sharing the same store, both require nix
+as an optional dependency. To build with the nix-daemon use NIX="yes"
+and to share the store with nix use SHARE="yes".
-guile-json is an optional dependency and will allow you to use the 'guix import pypi' command.
-It is of interest primarily for developers and not for casual users.
+guile-json is an optional dependency and will allow you to use the 'guix
+import pypi' command. It is of interest primarily for developers and
+not for casual users.