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bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual
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zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:37:25 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 00:29, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:
>
>> In the info manual, the Guix version is rendered as 0.0-git. For
>> example, in "(guix) The Store", see "The ability to connect to remote
>> build daemons is considered experimental as of 0.0-git". I am running
>> the Guix standalone system. Any idea what's going wrong?
>
> Nothing! :-)
>
> The “0.0-git” string comes from (guix self). As noted there, we can’t
> really afford to change the version string at each commit, or we’d have
> to rebuild the manual at each commit.
Why is it an issue if the manual is substituted?
> We could perhaps choose a more meaningful version string, though, maybe
> by looking at the closest tag or something.
For example, when I pull I have something like:
/gnu/store/…-guix-1b2141743-modules.drv
so why this commit ID could not be reused in the manual? For example,
the devel version of the manual contains the commit ID, see [1].
1: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/guix.html#The-Store
All the best,
simon
ps:
Sorry Ludo for the double sending, I missed the "reply all".
- bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual, Arun Isaac, 2020/07/05
- bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual, Efraim Flashner, 2020/07/16
- bug#42212: [PATCH 0/1] Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., Arun Isaac, 2020/07/17
- bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., Arun Isaac, 2020/07/17
- bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/07/20
- bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., Arun Isaac, 2020/07/20
- bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/07/20
- bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation., zimoun, 2020/07/20
- bug#42212: [PATCH v2 0/1] Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation, Arun Isaac, 2020/07/27