bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual

[Efraim Flashner]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:29:39AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Arun,
> 
> 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.
> 
> We could perhaps choose a more meaningful version string, though, maybe
> by looking at the closest tag or something.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 

I looked into it a bit for my os-release file.
$ guile -L /path/to/checkout
(ins)scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules ((guix config)))
(ins)scheme@(guile-user)> %guix-version
$1 = "1.0.1.19582-d7e9e"

$ guile -L 
~/.cache/guix/pull/pjmkglp4t7znuugeurpurzikxq3tnlaywmisyr27shj7apsnalwq/
(ins)scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules ((guix config)))
(ins)scheme@(guile-user)> %guix-version
$1 = "1.1.0-17.36a1925"

it seems to me that (guix config) could work

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