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@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018 Carlo Zancanaro@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Thomas Danckaert@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017 humanitiesNerd@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@*
-Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019 Marius Bakke@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Marius Bakke@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Hartmut Goebel@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Maxim Cournoyer@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@*
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Leo Prikler@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Simon Tournier@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Wiktor Żelazny@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Damien Cassou@*
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -3292,8 +3293,10 @@ $ guix build emacs --dry-run
@end example
@noindent
-This indicates that substitutes from @code{@value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}} are usable and
-will be downloaded, when possible, for future builds.
+The text changed from ``The following derivations would be built'' to
+``112.3 MB would be downloaded''. This indicates that substitutes from
+@code{@value{SUBSTITUTE-SERVER}} are usable and will be downloaded, when
+possible, for future builds.
@cindex substitutes, how to disable
The substitute mechanism can be disabled globally by running
@@ -4158,7 +4161,7 @@ say, on another machine, by providing a channel specification in
(channel
(name 'my-personal-packages)
(url "https://example.org/personal-packages.git")
- (branch "dd3df5e2c8818760a8fc0bd699e55d3b69fef2bb")))
+ (commit "dd3df5e2c8818760a8fc0bd699e55d3b69fef2bb")))
@end lisp
The @command{guix describe --format=channels} command can even generate this
@@ -5057,12 +5060,21 @@ Alternatively, you can produce a pack in the Docker image format using
the following command:
@example
-guix pack -f docker guile emacs geiser
+guix pack -f docker -S /bin=bin guile guile-readline
@end example
@noindent
The result is a tarball that can be passed to the @command{docker load}
-command. See the
+command, followed by @code{docker run}:
+
+@example
+docker load < @var{file}
+docker run -ti guile-guile-readline /bin/guile
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+where @var{file} is the image returned by @var{guix pack}, and
+@code{guile-guile-readline} is its ``image tag''. See the
@uref{https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/load/, Docker
documentation} for more information.
@@ -8444,6 +8456,11 @@ As an example, @var{file} might contain a package definition like this
@include package-hello.scm
@end lisp
+@item --manifest=@var{manifest}
+@itemx -m @var{manifest}
+Build all packages listed in the given @var{manifest}
+(@pxref{profile-manifest, @option{--manifest}}).
+
@item --expression=@var{expr}
@itemx -e @var{expr}
Build the package or derivation @var{expr} evaluates to.