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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-08 23:42:35 +0200 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-08 23:42:35 +0200 |
commit | df2ce34385376ea895580d2a3e9d75e64790919d (patch) | |
tree | 70fdb6b6eb2a2683f21dd77d5ec37dc9547e4cbb /doc | |
parent | 35dbbbe04c3ee77338b90cb09311c8c0d1cdc909 (diff) | |
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guix system: Add '--system' option.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (switch-to-system): Add #:system parameter;
pass it to 'run-with-store'.
(%options): Add '--system'.
(guix-system): Pass the 'system' option to 'run-with-store',
'package-derivation', and 'switch-to-system' calls.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document '--system' and
'--image-size'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 7930572f27..72fc4b94c2 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3445,7 +3445,21 @@ using the following command: @end table @var{options} can contain any of the common build options provided by -@command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). +@command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). In addition, +@var{options} can contain one of the following: + +@table @option +@item --system=@var{system} +@itemx -s @var{system} +Attempt to build for @var{system} instead of the host's system type. +This works as per @command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}). + +@item --image-size=@var{size} +For the @code{vm-image} and @code{disk-image} actions, create an image +of the given @var{size}. @var{size} may be a number of bytes, or it may +include a unit as a suffix, such as @code{MiB} for mebibytes and +@code{GB} for gigabytes. +@end table Note that all the actions above, except @code{build} and @code{init}, rely on KVM support in the Linux-Libre kernel. Specifically, the |