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authorLudovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr>2019-05-21 14:33:51 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-05-22 00:09:41 +0200
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pack: Add '--root'.
* guix/scripts/pack.scm (%options, show-help): Add "--root". (guix-pack): Honor it. * tests/guix-pack.sh: Test it. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Document it.
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@@ -4927,6 +4927,12 @@ is an infinity of channel URLs and commit IDs that can lead to the same pack.
Recording such ``silent'' metadata in the output thus potentially breaks the
source-to-binary bitwise reproducibility property.
+@item --root=@var{file}
+@itemx -r @var{file}
+@cindex garbage collector root, for packs
+Make @var{file} a symlink to the resulting pack, and register it as a garbage
+collector root.
+
@item --localstatedir
@itemx --profile-name=@var{name}
Include the ``local state directory'', @file{/var/guix}, in the resulting