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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-01-17 17:23:58 -0500 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2017-01-18 22:01:30 -0500 |
| commit | 8a9cffb202414b20081910115ba76402924bdcdd (patch) | |
| tree | 7b68a04792c8fc7435f809ad6455f63223cade64 | |
| parent | 840f38ba37af1d09eb1e896a6350d6ab7f6532d0 (diff) | |
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doc: Show how to deploy any version of Guix.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Give some examples of how to deploy
arbitrary Guix versions with the --url option.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a212666af0..2687716c6c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2014, 2015, 2016 Alex Kost@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Mathieu Lirzin@* Copyright @copyright{} 2014 Pierre-Antoine Rault@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Leo Famulari@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari@* Copyright @copyright{} 2015, 2016 Ricardo Wurmus@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Ben Woodcroft@* Copyright @copyright{} 2016 Chris Marusich@* @@ -2350,6 +2350,20 @@ Download the source tarball of Guix from @var{url}. By default, the tarball is taken from its canonical address at @code{gnu.org}, for the stable branch of Guix. +With some Git servers, this can be used to deploy any version of Guix. +For example, to download and deploy version 0.12.0 of Guix from the +canonical Git repo: + +@example +guix pull --url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/v0.12.0.tar.gz +@end example + +It can also be used to deploy arbitrary Git revisions: + +@example +guix pull --url=http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/74d862e8a.tar.gz +@end example + @item --bootstrap Use the bootstrap Guile to build the latest Guix. This option is only useful to Guix developers. |