Subject: bug#46852: closed (Re: bug#46852: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name)

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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 02:35:02 +0000

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#46852: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name

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

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Subject: Re: bug#46852: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
To: Luis Felipe <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]>, Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 22:34:42 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hello,

Luis Felipe <[email-masked]> writes:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, March 2, 2021 11:53 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Leo!
>>
>> Leo Famulari 写道：
>>
>> > Is there a reason for this change?
>
> Oh, I should have said so in the commit message, sorry. The reason is
> that if I add (list bind "utils") to the packages field in my
> operating system definition, reconfiguring the system fails because
> "bind" is a built-in Guile procedure, and so the package variable for
> BIND is called "isc-bind" to avoid that conflict.

Applied as 0b5120fb03db5226871b3482a72b1e6fdaa59ead, thank you!

And thanks to Leo and Tobias for getting the matter clarified :-).

Closing,

Maxim

Subject: doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name
From: Luis Felipe <[email-masked]>
To: Luis Felipe via Guix-patches <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:28:27 +0000
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Change "bind" package variable name to the actual variable name, "isc-bind".

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Luis Felipe López Acevedo
https://luis-felipe.gitlab.io/

From 91f7ec90fbe742de6eb3c092c86d84125a56f51f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luis Felipe <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:15:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Fix reference to the bind package variable name.

* doc/guix.texi (Globally-Visible Packages): Change "bind" variable
name to the actual variable name, "isc-bind".
---
 doc/guix.texi | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index e8fb346d73..8468b2890b 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -13301,12 +13301,12 @@ of a package:
 
 (operating-system
   ;; ...
-  (packages (cons (list bind "utils")
+  (packages (cons (list isc-bind "utils")
                   %base-packages)))
 @end lisp
 
 @findex specification->package
-Referring to packages by variable name, like @code{bind} above, has
+Referring to packages by variable name, like @code{isc-bind} above, has
 the advantage of being unambiguous; it also allows typos and such to be
 diagnosed right away as ``unbound variables''.  The downside is that one
 needs to know which module defines which package, and to augment the

base-commit: 7ca43b0a1e2215abe0df0708f31decace8e68911
-- 
2.30.0