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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-09-15 17:57:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2019-09-23 10:38:44 +0200 |
| commit | 7faffdc2d53b982d8443c376d6ed2f41a13b3f36 (patch) | |
| tree | 58a1bae8a20feca39bc7542b87a2b3798ebcbafa /doc | |
| parent | a725504a3a2f855c6a618e9b4cd222df91901113 (diff) | |
| download | guix-7faffdc2d53b982d8443c376d6ed2f41a13b3f36.tar.gz | |
pull: Display channel news.
* guix/scripts/pull.scm (display-news-entry) (display-channel-specific-news): New procedures. (display-channel-news): Call it. (display-new/upgraded-packages): Adjust hint message. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): Mention it.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 33bf08e9dd..4830f39cdb 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -3720,13 +3720,16 @@ Read the list of channels from @var{file} instead of evaluates to a list of channel objects. @xref{Channels}, for more information. +@cindex channel news @item --news @itemx -N -Display the list of packages added or upgraded since the previous generation. +Display the list of packages added or upgraded since the previous +generation, as well as, occasionally, news written by channel authors +for their users (@pxref{Channels, Writing Channel News}). -This is the same information as displayed upon @command{guix pull} completion, -but without ellipses; it is also similar to the output of @command{guix pull --l} for the last generation (see below). +The package information is the same as displayed upon @command{guix +pull} completion, but without ellipses; it is also similar to the output +of @command{guix pull -l} for the last generation (see below). @item --list-generations[=@var{pattern}] @itemx -l [@var{pattern}] |