From 43d8f4904c8dbd4d28017ce63b929ebb27a897d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:01:05 +0200 Subject: doc: Add note on installing Guix from Guix. * README (Installing Guix from Guix): New section. Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen . --- README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 09433586be..98e38b4f24 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ The "autoreconf -vi" command can be used to generate the build system infrastructure; it reports an error if an inappropriate version of the above packages is being used. +* Installing Guix from Guix + +You can re-build and re-install Guix using a system that already runs Guix. +To do so: + + - install the dependencies (see 'Requirements' above) using Guix + - re-run the configure script passing it the option + `--with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/' + - run "make" and "make install" + * How It Works Guix does the high-level preparation of a /derivation/. A derivation is -- cgit v1.2.3