doc: Add Runit init system in guix installation.series-3530

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add runit section.
* .mailmap: Add author email adress.

Co-authored-by: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 891e2693f6..7a13ed4439 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Alex Griffin@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Leo Prikler@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Simon Tournier@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Pathompong Kwangtong@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Wiktor Żelazny@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Damien Cassou@*
 Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jakub Kądziołka@*
@@ -663,6 +664,35 @@ If your host distro uses the Upstart init system:
 # start guix-daemon
 @end example
 
+If your host distro use the Runit init system:
+
+@example
+# mkdir /etc/sv/guix-daemon
+@end example
+
+Then create the guix-daemon runit launch script:
+
+@example
+# cat > /etc/sv/guix-daemon/run <<EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+
+GUIX_LOCPATH=/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/lib/locale
+LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
+
+export GUIX_LOCPATH LC_ALL
+
+exec /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon \
+  --build-users-group=guixbuild
+EOF
+@end example
+
+Now, you can enable and start the guix-daemon service with:
+
+@example
+# ln -s /etc/sv/guix-daemon /etc/runit/runsvdir/default/
+# sv up guix-daemon
+@end example
+
 Otherwise, you can still start the daemon manually with:
 
 @example