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doc: Mention the channel keyring branch.

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Reported by Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>.

* doc/guix.texi (Channels): Mention the keyring branch and the
'keyring-reference' bit in '.guix-channel'.
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@ -4245,10 +4245,28 @@ time-machine}, the command looks up the introductory commit and verifies
that it is signed by the specified OpenPGP key. From then on, it
authenticates commits according to the rule above.
To summarize, as the author of a channel, there are two things you have
Additionally, your channel must provide all the OpenPGP keys that were
ever mentioned in @file{.guix-authorizations}, stored as @file{.key}
files, which can be either binary or ``ASCII-armored''. By default,
those @file{.key} files are searched for in the branch named
@code{keyring} but you can specify a different branch name in
@code{.guix-channel} like so:
@lisp
(channel
(version 0)
(keyring-reference "my-keyring-branch"))
@end lisp
To summarize, as the author of a channel, there are three things you have
to do to allow users to authenticate your code:
@enumerate
@item
Export the OpenPGP keys of past and present committers with @command{gpg
--export} and store them in @file{.key} files, by default in a branch
named @code{keyring} (we recommend making it an @dfn{orphan branch}).
@item
Introduce an initial @file{.guix-authorizations} in the channel's
repository. Do that in a signed commit (@pxref{Commit Access}, for