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@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jakub Kądziołka@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jack Hill@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Naga Malleswari@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Brice Waegeneire@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Vincent Legoll@*
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -736,6 +737,16 @@ guix pack -s @var{system} --localstatedir \
@xref{Invoking guix pack}, for more info on this handy tool.
+If you have local modifications you want to include in the resulting
+tarball, you have to run the following command in your modified Guix
+source tree before doing the above:
+
+@example
+make update-guix-package
+git commit -m'NOT_FOR_UPSTREAM:allow testing a modified guix-binary' \
+ gnu/packages/package-management.scm
+@end example
+
@node Requirements
@section Requirements