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| author | Herman Rimm <herman@rimm.ee> | 2024-02-20 21:45:13 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-02-23 19:02:35 +0100 |
| commit | 635af8628c096526e3a79348f484e641aa05f04a (patch) | |
| tree | 4572819c18de8132b57e5711543b2a6e793b1c98 /doc | |
| parent | 50e514c1bc674b1c36344407c8c4b418d17759c5 (diff) | |
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import: Insert packages into modules alphabetically.
* guix/scripts/import.scm (guix-import): Add 'insert' option.
(import-as-definitions): Add procedure.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Describe 'insert' option.
Change-Id: Id87ea707123630e12bcb6788599acac6895b26c4
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index b761ec58bc..671cdab6f8 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Thomas Ieong@* Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Saku Laesvuori@* Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Graham James Addis@* Copyright @copyright{} 2023 Tomas Volf@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2024 Herman Rimm@* Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -14186,12 +14187,21 @@ is a package definition, or a template thereof, in the format we know The general syntax is: @example -guix import @var{importer} @var{options}@dots{} +guix import [@var{global-options}@dots{}] @var{importer} @var{package} [@var{options}@dots{}] @end example @var{importer} specifies the source from which to import package metadata, and @var{options} specifies a package identifier and other -options specific to @var{importer}. +options specific to @var{importer}. @command{guix import} itself has the +following @var{global-options}: + +@table @code +@item --insert=@var{file} +@itemx -i @var{file} +Insert the package definition(s) that the @var{importer} generated into the +specified @var{file}, either in alphabetical order among existing package +definitions, or at the end of the file otherwise. +@end table Some of the importers rely on the ability to run the @command{gpgv} command. For these, GnuPG must be installed and in @code{$PATH}; run @code{guix install |