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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-10-06 23:35:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-10-06 23:51:04 +0200 |
| commit | 38e16b49073dd9ea81c3320a84708c4b4d7c60e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 67bb4c7f74fbe85c1741b8365392ad9bf90bc409 | |
| parent | 72c62716befc0e428125ad4a0f784d2217d153bc (diff) | |
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doc: Clarify how to run 'guix refresh -u'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Mention ./pre-inst-env.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 6a3765f56a..6da7281566 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4132,7 +4132,14 @@ The following options are supported: @item --update @itemx -u -Update distribution source files (package recipes) in place. +Update distribution source files (package recipes) in place. This is +usually run from a checkout of the Guix source tree (@pxref{Running +Guix Before It Is Installed}): + +@example +$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -s non-core +@end example + @xref{Defining Packages}, for more information on package definitions. @item --select=[@var{subset}] @@ -4157,7 +4164,7 @@ In addition, @command{guix refresh} can be passed one or more package names, as in this example: @example -guix refresh -u emacs idutils gcc-4.8.4 +$ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u emacs idutils gcc-4.8.4 @end example @noindent |