Subject: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:36:01 +0900

Hello Ludovic!

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Maxim!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> From a289eb3fd6239287d4a802fbba69abf21604591f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:11:28 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a 'Upgrading Guix' section to the 'Installation'
>>  chapter.
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>> This follows a discussion regarding issue #36785 (see:
>> https://bugs.gnu.org/36785).
>>
>> * doc/guix.texi (Upgrading Guix): New section.
>>
>> Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
>
> [...]
>
>> +@node Upgrading Guix
>> +@section Upgrading Guix
>> +
>> +@cindex Upgrading Guix, on a foreign distro
>
> Nitpicking: index entries are usually lower-case.

Oh! I hadn't realized this was the convention used in Guix, thanks for
pointing it out.

>> +To upgrade Guix, run:
>> +
>> +@example
>> +guix pull
>> +@end example
>
> Perhaps add:
>
>   @xref{Invoking guix pull}, for more information.
>
>> +When you need to upgrade the build daemon, for instance, which runs as
>> +root, run:
>> +
>> +@example
>> +sudo -i guix pull
>> +@end example
>
> What about restating upfront that we’re talking about foreign distros
> specifically:
>
>   On a foreign distro, you can upgrade the build daemon by running:
>
>   @example
>   sudo -i guix pull
>   @end example
>
>   @noindent
>   followed by (assuming your distro uses the systemd service management
>   tool):
>
>   @example
>   systemctl restart guix-daemon.service
>   @end example
>
>   On Guix System, upgrading the daemon is achieved by reconfiguring the
>   system (@pxref{Invoking guix system, @code{guix system reconfigure}}).
>
> ?

Great additions.

> Feel free to push something along these lines.

Pushed as 5510bb01e9.

Thank you!

Maxim