On 01/11/2015, Alex Kost <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex Vong (2015-10-31 14:27 +0300) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I hit several problems when I followed the documentation. Please see >> if it is a real issue or just my misunderstandings. >> >> 1. In <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#X11-Fonts>, >> it saids "Essential font packages include gs-fonts, font-dejavu, and >> font-gnu-freefont.". But I think "font-gnu-freefont" has been renamed >> to "font-gnu-freefont-ttf", so this has to be changed. > > I think this on-line manual is for the current version (0.8.3). The > typo you mention was fixed in the git repo: > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=8fe5b1d1d1d188cbc6eb1b644fdc0d9fff255d4e> > Thanks! I wasn't aware that the web version not being up to date.
>> 2. In >> <https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed>, >> it said "To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if >> you have not run make install.". However, in the case of "guix pull", >> it is not true. Even if "guix pull" does run properly, it will not >> update the source tree you have downloaded, so you end up with running >> the original compiled version of Guix. Obviously, I was a victim :) > > Sorry, I don't understand what you mean here. "guix pull" can't update > the source tree you downloaded. It fetches the latest guix source, > compiles it, put it to the store and link "~/.config/guix/latest" to it. > Then the Guix code from this directory when you run "guix ..." commands. > > If you use the described "pre-inst-env" method, the code from the git > directory is used instead, and running "guix pull" doesn't effect > ".../pre-inst-env guix" commands in any way. Here instead of "guix > pull" you use "git pull" and "make". > What I mean is "guix pull" only works after Guix is installed, so what the documentation says, "To that end, all the command-line tools can be used even if you have not run make install", is inaccurate. Should we note this in the documentation? > -- > Alex > Cheers, Alex
