doc: Improve recent changes in "Binary Installation".
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* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Improve wording of some parts.
Fix Upstart example. Remove incorrect paragraph about locales.
Reinstate bit about reproducing the binary tarball.
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@ -377,9 +377,10 @@ Create the group and user accounts for build users as explained below
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(@pxref{Build Environment Setup}).
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@item
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Run and set the Guix daemon to automatically start on boot.
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Run the daemon, and set it to automatically start on boot.
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If your host distro uses the systemd init system:
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If your host distro uses the systemd init system, this can be achieved
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with these commands:
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@example
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# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \
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If your host distro uses the Upstart init system:
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@example
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# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
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# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
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# start guix-daemon
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@end example
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Otherwise, you can still start the daemon manually with:
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# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
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@end example
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@item
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Make the @command{guix} command available to other users on the machine,
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for instance with:
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@end example
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@end enumerate
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This completes root-level install of Guix. Each user will need to
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This completes root-level install of Guix. Each user will need to
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perform additional steps to make their Guix envionment ready for use,
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@pxref{Application Setup}.
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# guix package -i hello
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@end example
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If your host distro uses @code{locales} that are incompatible with the
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@code{glibc} that Guix uses, you will see @code{warning: failed to
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install locale: Invalid argument}. This may be ignored, or remedied by
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installing Locales as root, @pxref{Application Setup}.
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The @code{guix} package must remain available in @code{root}'s profile,
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or it would become subject to garbage collection---in which case you
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would find yourself badly handicapped by the lack of the @command{guix}
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command. In other words, don't remove @code{guix} by running @code{guix
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package -r guix}.
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command. In other words, do not remove @code{guix} by running
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@code{guix package -r guix}.
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The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply
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by running the following command in the Guix source tree:
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@example
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make guix-binary.@var{system}.tar.xz
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@end example
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@node Requirements
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