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commit b57dd2006b49948d6eca5d07721ec50845d7e354
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Apr 26 14:16:18 2019 +0200
doc: Add 'BASE-URL' variable.
* doc/guix.texi (BASE-URL): New variable.
(Binary Installation, USB Stick and DVD Installation)
(Running Guix in a VM): Use it instead of hard-coded URL.
---
doc/guix.texi | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 480fce3..bd59bc6 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
@set OPENPGP-SIGNING-KEY-ID 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5
@set KEY-SERVER pool.sks-keyservers.net
+@c Base URL for downloads.
+@set BASE-URL https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix
+
@c The official substitute server used by default.
@set SUBSTITUTE-SERVER ci.guix.info
@@ -521,7 +524,7 @@ Installing goes along these lines:
@item
@cindex downloading Guix binary
Download the binary tarball from
-@indicateurl{https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz},
+@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz},
where @var{system} is @code{x86_64-linux} for an @code{x86_64} machine
already running the kernel Linux, and so on.
@@ -530,7 +533,7 @@ Make sure to download the associated @file{.sig} file and
to verify the
authenticity of the tarball against it, along these lines:
@example
-$ wget
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz.sig
+$ wget @value{BASE-URL}/guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz.sig
$ gpg --verify guix-binary-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.tar.xz.sig
@end example
@@ -1862,7 +1865,7 @@ about their support in GNU/Linux.
An ISO-9660 installation image that can be written to a USB stick or
burnt to a DVD can be downloaded from
-@indicateurl{https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.iso.xz},
+@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-install-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.iso.xz},
where @var{system} is one of:
@table @code
@@ -1878,7 +1881,7 @@ Make sure to download the associated @file{.sig} file and
to verify the
authenticity of the image against it, along these lines:
@example
-$ wget
https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-install-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.iso.xz.sig
+$ wget
@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-install-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.iso.xz.sig
$ gpg --verify guix-system-install-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.iso.xz.sig
@end example
@@ -24578,7 +24581,7 @@ example graph.
@cindex virtual machine
To run Guix in a virtual machine (VM), one can use the pre-built Guix VM image
distributed at
-@indicateurl{https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.xz}
+@indicateurl{@value{BASE-URL}/guix-system-vm-image-@value{VERSION}.@var{system}.xz}
This image is a compressed image in QCOW format. You will first need to
decompress with @command{xz -d}, and then you can pass it to an emulator such
as QEMU (see below for details).
