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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 580b599ccd..aab8978fca 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2375,7 +2375,8 @@ The installation image described above was built using the @command{guix system} command, specifically: @example -guix system disk-image gnu/system/install.scm +guix system disk-image --file-system-type=iso9660 \ + gnu/system/install.scm @end example Have a look at @file{gnu/system/install.scm} in the source tree, @@ -7288,7 +7289,8 @@ care! Build @var{package} from the latest commit of @var{branch}. The @code{source} field of @var{package} must be an origin with the @code{git-fetch} method (@pxref{origin Reference}) or a @code{git-checkout} object; the repository URL -is taken from that @code{source}. +is taken from that @code{source}. Git sub-modules of the repository are +fetched, recursively. For instance, the following command builds @code{guile-sqlite3} from the latest commit of its @code{master} branch, and then builds @code{guix} (which @@ -9982,10 +9984,10 @@ version: The @code{services} field lists @dfn{system services} to be made available when the system starts (@pxref{Services}). The @code{operating-system} declaration above specifies that, in -addition to the basic services, we want the @command{lshd} secure shell +addition to the basic services, we want the OpenSSH secure shell daemon listening on port 2222 (@pxref{Networking Services, -@code{lsh-service}}). Under the hood, -@code{lsh-service} arranges so that @code{lshd} is started with the +@code{openssh-service-type}}). Under the hood, +@code{openssh-service-type} arranges so that @command{sshd} is started with the right command-line options, possibly with supporting configuration files generated as needed (@pxref{Defining Services}). @@ -23464,7 +23466,7 @@ Guix system services are connected by @dfn{extensions}. For instance, the secure shell service @emph{extends} the Shepherd---the initialization system, running as PID@tie{}1---by giving it the command lines to start and stop the secure shell daemon (@pxref{Networking -Services, @code{lsh-service}}); the UPower service extends the D-Bus +Services, @code{openssh-service-type}}); the UPower service extends the D-Bus service by passing it its @file{.service} specification, and extends the udev service by passing it device management rules (@pxref{Desktop Services, @code{upower-service}}); the Guix daemon service extends the @@ -23491,7 +23493,7 @@ particular operating system definition. Technically, developers can define @dfn{service types} to express these relations. There can be any number of services of a given type on the system---for instance, a system running two instances of the GNU secure -shell server (lsh) has two instances of @var{lsh-service-type}, with +shell server (lsh) has two instances of @code{lsh-service-type}, with different parameters. The following section describes the programming interface for service |