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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-10-20 19:28:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2018-11-23 15:42:01 +0100 |
| commit | 08f410834bffbe1e55633a0a4c87caba69d7fa92 (patch) | |
| tree | 1013c1a9c3f92382c5cd6750d15d1cd36ba76326 /doc | |
| parent | 4bd5b9707e14bd5ad4da6868687ff3c642705ce3 (diff) | |
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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".
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 648f3e50bd..594aca731a 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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 |