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| author | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-06-15 10:21:50 -0400 |
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| committer | Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> | 2021-06-29 14:53:21 -0400 |
| commit | 82daab42811a2e3c7684ebdf12af75ff0fa67b99 (patch) | |
| tree | ef4bad3e82d6d13dc8d37daa30af883a95659520 /doc | |
| parent | 8108c266dc2fbc70602b2aa5c6887bf17bed16e8 (diff) | |
pack: Add support for the deb format.
* .dir-locals.el (scheme-mode)[gexp->derivation]: Define indentation rule.
* guix/scripts/pack.scm (debian-archive): New procedure.
(%formats): Register the new deb format.
(show-formats): Add it to the usage string.
* tests/pack.scm (%ar-bootstrap): New variable.
(deb archive with symlinks): New test.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Document it.
* NEWS: Add news entry.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 37936bb0f3..e0668b1f5f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6028,6 +6028,11 @@ This produces a SquashFS image containing all the specified binaries and symlinks, as well as empty mount points for virtual file systems like procfs. +@item deb +This produces a Debian archive (a package with the @samp{.deb} file +extension) containing all the specified binaries and symbolic links, +that can be installed on top of any dpkg-based GNU/Linux distribution. + @quotation Note Singularity @emph{requires} you to provide @file{/bin/sh} in the image. For that reason, @command{guix pack -f squashfs} always implies @code{-S |