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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-10-20 19:28:05 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-11-23 15:42:01 +0100
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pack: Add '--profile-name'.
* guix/scripts/pack.scm (self-contained-tarball): Add #:profile-name and honor it. (squashfs-image, docker-image): Add #:profile-name. (%default-options): Add 'profile-name'. (%options, show-help): Add "--profile-name". (guix-pack): Honor it. * tests/guix-pack-localstatedir.sh: New file. * Makefile.am (SH_TESTS): Add it. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Document "--profile-name".
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
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@@ -3488,8 +3488,11 @@ For instance, @code{-S /opt/gnu/bin=bin} creates a @file{/opt/gnu/bin}
symlink pointing to the @file{bin} sub-directory of the profile.
@item --localstatedir
-Include the ``local state directory'', @file{/var/guix}, in the
-resulting pack.
+@itemx --profile-name=@var{name}
+Include the ``local state directory'', @file{/var/guix}, in the resulting
+pack, and notably the @file{/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/@var{name}}
+profile---by default @var{name} is @code{guix-profile}, which corresponds to
+@file{~root/.guix-profile}.
@file{/var/guix} contains the store database (@pxref{The Store}) as well
as garbage-collector roots (@pxref{Invoking guix gc}). Providing it in