From e9dffec1265233c3b37ef61538b51f121a420ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 12:42:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update 'skeletons' field documentation. * doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Update documentation of 'skeletons' as a followup to e79467f63a06811ba5dd8c8b0cc79553c5dd4e3a. --- doc/guix.texi | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 8088167818..34683d2555 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6426,15 +6426,17 @@ For example, @code{'("/dev/sda3")}. List of user accounts and groups. @xref{User Accounts}. @item @code{skeletons} (default: @code{(default-skeletons)}) -A monadic list of pairs of target file name and files. These are the -files that will be used as skeletons as new accounts are created. +A list target file name/file-like object tuples (@pxref{G-Expressions, +file-like objects}). These are the skeleton files that will be added to +the home directory of newly-created user accounts. For instance, a valid value may look like this: @example -(mlet %store-monad ((bashrc (text-file "bashrc" "\ - export PATH=$HOME/.guix-profile/bin"))) - (return `((".bashrc" ,bashrc)))) +`((".bashrc" ,(plain-file "bashrc" "echo Hello\n")) + (".guile" ,(plain-file "guile" + "(use-modules (ice-9 readline)) + (activate-readline)"))) @end example @item @code{issue} (default: @var{%default-issue})