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| author | Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> | 2013-09-24 22:18:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> | 2013-09-25 16:08:39 +0000 |
| commit | 4b2bc804d861ff5ba550dac0b56f1fe44f079847 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f4ab9edd94e9dcd6e851e05588a58c3865152fd /doc | |
| parent | 0ab212b9466d5aa3fe801c9137248703245d8513 (diff) | |
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guix package: Do not list the zeroth generation.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (guix-package)[process-query]: Change
'list-generation' to not list the zeroth generation.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Test it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document it, and use the
right term when talking about generations.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 90016a4496..442cef26da 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -583,9 +583,8 @@ When combined with options such as @code{--install}, roll back occurs before any other actions. When rolling back from the first generation that actually contains -installed packages, the profile is made to point to the @dfn{empty -profile}, also known as @dfn{profile zero}---i.e., it contains no files -apart from its own meta-data. +installed packages, the profile is made to point to the @dfn{zeroth +generation}, which contains no files apart from its own meta-data. Installing, removing, or upgrading packages from a generation that has been rolled back to overwrites previous future generations. Thus, the @@ -683,7 +682,8 @@ Multiple Outputs}), and the source location of its definition. @itemx -l [@var{pattern}] Return a list of generations along with their creation dates; for each generation, show the installed packages, with the most recently -installed packages shown last. +installed packages shown last. Note that the zeroth generation is never +shown. For each installed package, print the following items, separated by tabs: the name of a package, its version string, the part of the package |