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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-12-15 22:46:09 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2016-12-16 14:45:56 +0100 |
| commit | 5597b3ae0809abd9d94099ea5cd09c2a176e3f6f (patch) | |
| tree | acb34216744d5f40dde327fed0b9906fb2ad8df1 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | c8502d9ec179a65abcd41b18281869cc2233890e (diff) | |
doc: "Nar" now means "normalized archive".
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix archive): Mention "normalized archive"
and add index entries.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 46ed451d6b..bd782cab03 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2403,10 +2403,12 @@ profile as well as all of their dependencies are transferred (due to target machine. The @code{--missing} option can help figure out which items are missing from the target store. -Archives are stored in the ``Nix archive'' or ``Nar'' format, which is -comparable in spirit to `tar', but with a few noteworthy differences +@cindex nar, archive format +@cindex normalized archive (nar) +Archives are stored in the ``normalized archive'' or ``nar'' format, which is +comparable in spirit to `tar', but with differences that make it more appropriate for our purposes. First, rather than -recording all Unix metadata for each file, the Nar format only mentions +recording all Unix metadata for each file, the nar format only mentions the file type (regular, directory, or symbolic link); Unix permissions and owner/group are dismissed. Second, the order in which directory entries are stored always follows the order of file names according to |