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From: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 16:14:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add cindex & command to show versions of dependencies
* doc/guix.texi: Add 2 cindex in 2 sections
* doc/guix.texi (Running the Test Suite): Add command to show versions of dependencies
---
doc/guix.texi | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Toggle diff (39 lines)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 441b65bca..0b906edc1 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Pierre-Antoine Rouby@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Gábor Boskovits@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Florian Pelz@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2018 Laura Lazzati@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2018 swedebugia@*
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
@@ -602,6 +603,7 @@ would find yourself badly handicapped by the lack of the @command{guix}
command. In other words, do not remove @code{guix} by running
@code{guix package -r guix}.
+@cindex producing the binary guix tarball
The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply
by running the following command in the Guix source tree:
@@ -743,8 +745,15 @@ make check TESTS="tests/base64.scm" SCM_LOG_DRIVER_FLAGS="--brief=no"
Upon failure, please email @email{bug-guix@@gnu.org} and attach the
@file{test-suite.log} file. Please specify the Guix version being used
as well as version numbers of the dependencies (@pxref{Requirements}) in
-your message.
+your message, e.g. by running this command:
+@example
+guile --version | head -1 && guix --version | head -1 && \
+gcc --version | head -1 && echo -n ``libgcrypt `` && \
+libgcrypt-config --version && make --version | head -1
+@end example
+
+@cindex whole-system test suite
Guix also comes with a whole-system test suite that tests complete
GuixSD operating system instances. It can only run on systems where
Guix is already installed, using:
--
2.18.0