Subject: bug#26733: closed ()

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 08:04:02 +0000

Your bug report

#26733: document (list package output) in operating-system-packages

which was filed against the guix-patches package, has been closed.

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From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 10:03:38 +0200
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Subject: document (list package output) in operating-system-packages
From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:51:55 +0200
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Hi,

here is a small patch to document how to make globally visible a
specific output of a package.

>From 6a71d7613bbabdde9d43de5ff09601195f9f49ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 15:44:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Document (list package output) syntax in
 operanting-system-packages.

* doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Document (PACKAGE OUTPUT) syntax.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 957ce2bab..3ae9a1cd5 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -7678,7 +7678,19 @@ provides all the tools one would expect for basic user and administrator
 tasks---including the GNU Core Utilities, the GNU Networking Utilities,
 the GNU Zile lightweight text editor, @command{find}, @command{grep},
 etc.  The example above adds tcpdump to those, taken from the @code{(gnu
-packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}).
+packages admin)} module (@pxref{Package Modules}).  The
+@code{(list package output)} syntax can be used to add a specific output
+of a package:
+
+@lisp
+(use-modules (gnu packages))
+(use-modules (gnu packages dns))
+
+(operating-system
+  ;; ...
+  (packages (cons (list bind "utils")
+                  %base-packages)))
+@end lisp
 
 @findex specification->package
 Referring to packages by variable name, like @var{tcpdump} above, has
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