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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-03-16 22:59:33 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-03-16 22:59:33 +0100
commit107b8da6228fca888a0801c3eadf4bb23a6b46a4 (patch)
treec905427c5dbd103010c4fdcae42671923c2f25bf
parentdb3f2b61adfe56d69029ec5f6d962462a50a1f33 (diff)
doc: Mention 'guix pack' reproducibility.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Mention reproducibility.
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@@ -2405,7 +2405,9 @@ The @command{guix pack} command creates a shrink-wrapped @dfn{pack} or
containing the binaries of the software you're interested in, and all
its dependencies. The resulting archive can be used on any machine that
does not have Guix, and people can run the exact same binaries as those
-you have with Guix.
+you have with Guix. The pack itself is created in a bit-reproducible
+fashion, so anyone can verify that it really contains the build results
+that you pretend to be shipping.
For example, to create a bundle containing Guile, Emacs, Geiser, and all
their dependencies, you can run: