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authorHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2016-11-18 00:49:09 +0100
committerHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2016-11-24 09:20:26 +0100
commitb7230de54b493da5a78922b4226255763b525a98 (patch)
treee66f47a5cbc359533a7146be68e04d1b5e7fe6d7 /doc
parentc50f2af9f800ae1b24e7b245b4a2ab137b18a664 (diff)
downloadguix-b7230de54b493da5a78922b4226255763b525a98.tar.gz
doc: Symlink daemon start-up files.
This patch ensures that always the current profile's daemon will be used.

The .service file contains the path to the guix-daemon within the store. Thus
when copying the file, it will point to the very version of guix-daemon used
at the time of copying – even after system upgrade or when this version has
been garbage collected from the store.

* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Change example code for installing
  the systemd and Upstart files to use symbolic links instead of copying
  the files.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7381c2c6ba..347361ca74 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ 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 \
+# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service \
         /etc/systemd/system/
 # systemctl start guix-daemon && systemctl enable guix-daemon
 @end example
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ with these commands:
 If your host distro uses the Upstart init system:
 
 @example
-# cp ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
+# ln -s ~root/.guix-profile/lib/upstart/system/guix-daemon.conf /etc/init/
 # start guix-daemon
 @end example