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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
@c Identifier of the OpenPGP key used to sign tarballs and such.
@set OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-ID 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
-@set KEY-SERVER pool.sks-keyservers.net
+@set OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-URL https://sv.gnu.org/people/viewgpg.php?user_id=15145
@c Base URL for downloads.
@set BASE-URL https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guix
@@ -558,8 +558,8 @@ If that command fails because you do not have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
@example
-$ gpg --keyserver @value{KEY-SERVER} \
- --recv-keys @value{OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-ID}
+$ wget @value{OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-URL} \
+ -qO - | gpg --import -
@end example
@noindent
@@ -1905,8 +1905,8 @@ If that command fails because you do not have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
@example
-$ gpg --keyserver @value{KEY-SERVER} \
- --recv-keys @value{OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-ID}
+$ wget @value{OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-URL} \
+ -qO - | gpg --import -
@end example
@noindent
@@ -3921,6 +3921,19 @@ For the sake of reliability and maintainability, you should avoid dependencies
on channels that you don't control, and you should aim to keep the number of
dependencies to a minimum.
+@cindex subdirectory, channels
+@subsection Package Modules in a Sub-directory
+
+As a channel author, you may want to keep your channel modules in a
+sub-directory. If your modules are in the sub-directory @file{guix}, you must
+add a meta-data file @file{.guix-channel} that contains:
+
+@lisp
+(channel
+ (version 0)
+ (directory "guix"))
+@end lisp
+
@subsection Replicating Guix
@cindex pinning, channels
@@ -6333,6 +6346,17 @@ the module (in the "arguments" form of a package using the
linux-module-build-system, use the key #:linux to specify it).
@end defvr
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} node-build-system
+This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system node)}. It
+implements the build procedure used by @uref{http://nodejs.org,
+Node.js}, which implements an approximation of the @code{npm install}
+command, followed by an @code{npm test} command.
+
+Which Node.js package is used to interpret the @code{npm} commands can
+be specified with the @code{#:node} parameter which defaults to
+@code{node}.
+@end defvr
+
Lastly, for packages that do not need anything as sophisticated, a
``trivial'' build system is provided. It is trivial in the sense that
it provides basically no support: it does not pull any implicit inputs,
@@ -25547,7 +25571,7 @@ vm-image} on x86_64 hardware:
@example
$ qemu-system-x86_64 \
-net user -net nic,model=virtio \
- -enable-kvm -m 512 \
+ -enable-kvm -m 1024 \
-device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \
-drive if=none,file=/tmp/qemu-image,id=myhd
@end example