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bf2479c710d32eb61cbaa393df4525a84aaa2d95 — Ludovic Courtès 11 years ago c6fabc5
doc: Suggest using 'guix pull' before 'guix system reconfigure'.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Suggest running 'guix pull'
  before the first use of 'guix system reconfigure'.
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

M doc/guix.texi
M doc/guix.texi => doc/guix.texi +7 -0
@@ 4343,6 4343,13 @@ It also adds a GRUB menu entry for the new OS configuration, and moves
entries for older configurations to a submenu---unless
@option{--no-grub} is passed.

@c The paragraph below refers to the problem discussed at
@c <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-08/msg00057.html>.
It is highly recommended to run @command{guix pull} once before you run
@command{guix system reconfigure} for the first time (@pxref{Invoking
guix pull}).  Failing to do that you would see an older version of Guix
once @command{reconfigure} has completed.

@item build
Build the operating system's derivation, which includes all the
configuration files and programs needed to boot and run the system.