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doc: Improve recent changes in "Binary Installation". 

This amends part of c8e2688.

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Improve wording of some parts.
Fix Upstart example.  Remove incorrect paragraph about locales.
Reinstate bit about reproducing the binary tarball.
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Ludovic Courtès 2016-02-24 23:20:17 +01:00
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@ -377,9 +377,10 @@ Create the group and user accounts for build users as explained below
(@pxref{Build Environment Setup}).
@item
Run and set the Guix daemon to automatically start on boot.
Run the daemon, and set it to automatically start on boot.
If your host distro uses the systemd init system:
If your host distro uses the systemd init system, this can be achieved
with these commands:
@example
# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \
@ -390,8 +391,8 @@ If your host distro uses the systemd init system:
If your host distro uses the Upstart init system:
@example
# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
# start guix-daemon
@end example
Otherwise, you can still start the daemon manually with:
@ -400,7 +401,6 @@ Otherwise, you can still start the daemon manually with:
# ~root/.guix-profile/bin/guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild
@end example
@item
Make the @command{guix} command available to other users on the machine,
for instance with:
@ -446,16 +446,18 @@ the root profile:
# guix package -i hello
@end example
If your host distro uses @code{locales} that are incompatible with the
@code{glibc} that Guix uses, you will see @code{warning: failed to
install locale: Invalid argument}. This may be ignored, or remedied by
installing Locales as root, @pxref{Application Setup}.
The @code{guix} package must remain available in @code{root}'s profile,
or it would become subject to garbage collection---in which case you
would find yourself badly handicapped by the lack of the @command{guix}
command. In other words, don't remove @code{guix} by running @code{guix
package -r guix}.
command. In other words, do not remove @code{guix} by running
@code{guix package -r guix}.
The binary installation tarball can be (re)produced and verified simply
by running the following command in the Guix source tree:
@example
make guix-binary.@var{system}.tar.xz
@end example
@node Requirements