bug#40597: closed ([PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball, rebuild instructions.)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball, rebuild instructions. Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:34:38 +0200 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0

Hello,

following the discussion in guix-devel, here is a small doc
addition to explain how binary-tarball modifications can
be built and then tested...

WDYT ?

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Vincent Legoll

0001-doc-Mention-update-guix-package-in-guix-binary-tarba.patch
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> Hi Vincent and Ludovic,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi Vincent,
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> > Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com> skribis:
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> >>>>From dd961656d9bd98d11ba5e38be89cd1952fefc263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:25:57 +0200
> >> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball
> >>  rebuild instructions.
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> >> * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention 'make update-guix-package'.
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> > I agree this needs to be documented, but I don’t think this is the right
> > place: “Binary Installation” is for users who want to install.  Instead,
> > we should document it in a section explicitly targeting Guix developers,
> > maybe under “Contributing”?
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> A "Updating the Guix Package" subsection has since been added to the
> Contributing section, which I believe covers this.
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> Thank you,
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> Closing.
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> Maxim
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