GNU bug report logs - #30742
doc: Explain what we mean by root in binary installation.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

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From: julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: doc: Explain what we mean by root in binary installation.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:39:43 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
Hi, since a user got confused and tried to run the instructions with 
sudo (which doesn't work), here is a slight improvement for the 
documentation that adds a hint as to what we mean by "as root".
[0001-doc-Explain-what-we-mean-by-root-in-binary-installat.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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bug#30742; Package guix-patches. (Wed, 07 Mar 2018 21:27:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
Cc: 30742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30742] doc: Explain what we mean by root in binary
 installation.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:26:45 +0100

julien lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu> skribis:

> From fb1f66634a2aec4840438cd8c95b2c11061ce085 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:39:04 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Explain what we mean by root in binary installation.
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add explicit instructions to become root.

Sure, go for it!

Ludo'.
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From: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>
To: 30742-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30742] doc: Explain what we mean by root in binary
 installation.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 22:09:43 +0100

Thanks, pushed as 1f3921e1435db7c9489f22832554ad4692434efc
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Fri, 06 Apr 2018 11:24:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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