>From dd961656d9bd98d11ba5e38be89cd1952fefc263 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Legoll Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:25:57 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention update-guix-package in guix-binary tarball rebuild instructions. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Mention 'make update-guix-package'. --- doc/guix.texi | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 891e2693f6..8bf4ef9b74 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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 -- 2.20.1