bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> It’s a paragraph that explains how to upgrade Guix System, so I think
> foreign distros should be discussed elsewhere.  (I appreciate your
> attempt to add proper documentation about that for foreign distros!)
>
>> what my commits aim to do is make them generally true regardless of
>> In the commit message I wrote:
>>
>>    Although this section is specific to Guix System, it is likely to be
>>    read by users of foreign GNU/Linux distributions as well.  Remove the
>>    note, given that sudo doesn't preserve the user's PATH on foreign
>>    distributions such as Debian.
>
> But users of foreign distros would hopefully realize that ‘guix system
> reconfigure’ (in the same snippet) is not for them.  :-)

I've been guilty myself of using C-s or 'i' in the manual and reading
something that didn't apply to my system but *did* match my
search... :-) 

>> What about adding a section that we could call “Upgrading Guix”
> under “Application Setup”, which is where setup on foreign distros is
> discussed?
>
> The section could say:
>
>   1. Run ‘guix pull’ to upgrade Guix.
>
>   2. When you need to upgrade the build daemon, for instance, which runs
>      as root, run:
>
>        sudo -i guix pull
>
> How does that sound?

This sounds much simpler than attempting to twist some other section
into something it wasn't really meant for ;-).

I've attached a simple patch implementing the idea.

Thanks for your patience!

Maxim

0001-doc-Add-a-Upgrading-Guix-section-to-the-Installation.patch
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