Subject: Re: [bug#39501] [PATCH] doc: Clarify how sudo and guix interact when updating

From: Jakub Kądziołka <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:15:23 +0100

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 05:31:45PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> Jakub Kądziołka <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > * doc/guix.texi (After System Installation): Explicitly explain the
> >   mechanics of how sudo differs from a login shell.
> >
> > Some recent discussions on IRC suggest that the existing wording wasn't
> > entirely clear.
> > ---
> >  doc/guix.texi | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> > index 710cf97673..9f758706f6 100644
> > --- a/doc/guix.texi
> > +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> > @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant@*
> >  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Leo Prikler@*
> >  Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Simon Tournier@*
> >  Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Wiktor Żelazny@*
> > +Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Jakub Kądziołka@*
> >  
> >  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> >  under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
> > @@ -2439,6 +2440,11 @@ your system includes the latest security updates (@pxref{Security Updates}).
> >  Note that @command{sudo guix} runs your user's @command{guix} command and
> >  @emph{not} root's, because @command{sudo} leaves @code{PATH} unchanged.  To
> >  explicitly run root's @command{guix}, type @command{sudo -i guix @dots{}}.
> > +
> > +The difference matters here, because @command{guix pull} updates
> > +the @command{guix} command and package definitions only for the user it is ran
> > +as. This means that if you choose to use @command{guix system reconfigure} in
>      ^^^
> Please use two spaces after punctuations.  Otherwise LGTM.

Thanks! I added a space and pushed to master as
6a7f4d89b2029b43b766217d71d5dbbdfcc5fa09.