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author | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2022-10-06 12:16:00 +0200 |
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committer | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2022-10-06 12:22:49 +0200 |
commit | b310c4f02a7fd3b89420bd57ac027e63bb892f32 (patch) | |
tree | 9748a2594da159bdea124ced07a0cfcb06ca9f5b /doc | |
parent | 32ba74ab483e0e2fb92c01a4110f741ad88497a6 (diff) | |
download | guix-b310c4f02a7fd3b89420bd57ac027e63bb892f32.tar.gz |
doc: Add every command name to concept index.
* doc/guix.texi: Add an entry for each Guix command to the concept index.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 3079d49b1d..bc42be8486 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1591,7 +1591,7 @@ effectively running @code{guix-daemon} executable is upgraded. @node Invoking guix-daemon @section Invoking @command{guix-daemon} - +@cindex @command{guix-daemon} The @command{guix-daemon} program implements all the functionality to access the store. This includes launching build processes, running the garbage collector, querying the availability of a build result, etc. It @@ -3316,6 +3316,7 @@ retaining precise @dfn{provenance tracking} of the software. @cindex package installation @cindex package removal @cindex profile +@cindex @command{guix package} The @command{guix package} command is the tool that allows users to install, upgrade, and remove packages, as well as rolling back to previous configurations. These operations work on a user @@ -4309,6 +4310,7 @@ guix package}). @cindex garbage collector @cindex disk space +@cindex @command{guix gc} Packages that are installed, but not used, may be @dfn{garbage-collected}. The @command{guix gc} command allows users to explicitly run the garbage collector to reclaim space from the @file{/gnu/store} directory. It is @@ -4954,6 +4956,7 @@ declaration, and so on. @cindex reproducibility @cindex replicating Guix +@cindex @command{guix describe} Often you may want to answer questions like: ``Which revision of Guix am I using?'' or ``Which channels am I using?'' This is useful information in many situations: if you want to @emph{replicate} an environment on a different @@ -5807,6 +5810,7 @@ easily distributed to users who do not run Guix. @cindex reproducible build environments @cindex development environments @cindex @command{guix environment} +@cindex @command{guix shell} @cindex environment, package build environment The purpose of @command{guix shell} is to make it easy to create one-off software environments, without changing one's profile. It is typically @@ -6237,6 +6241,8 @@ package transformation options (@pxref{Package Transformation Options}). @node Invoking guix environment @section Invoking @command{guix environment} +@cindex @command{guix environment} + The purpose of @command{guix environment} is to assist in creating development environments. @@ -6616,6 +6622,8 @@ transformation options (@pxref{Package Transformation Options}). @node Invoking guix pack @section Invoking @command{guix pack} +@cindex @command{guix pack} + Occasionally you want to pass software to people who are not (yet!) lucky enough to be using Guix. You'd tell them to run @command{guix package -i @var{something}}, but that's not possible in this case. This @@ -7034,6 +7042,8 @@ for Fortran development. For other languages, please use @node Invoking guix git authenticate @section Invoking @command{guix git authenticate} +@cindex @command{guix git authenticate} + The @command{guix git authenticate} command authenticates a Git checkout following the same rule as for channels (@pxref{channel-authentication, channel authentication}). That is, starting from a given commit, it @@ -11799,6 +11809,7 @@ replaced with some arbitrary object -- currently the list @node Invoking guix repl @section Invoking @command{guix repl} +@cindex @command{guix repl} @cindex REPL, read-eval-print loop, script The @command{guix repl} command makes it easier to program Guix in Guile by launching a Guile @dfn{read-eval-print loop} (REPL) for interactive @@ -14104,6 +14115,7 @@ otherwise. @node Invoking guix style @section Invoking @command{guix style} +@cindex @command{guix style} The @command{guix style} command helps users and packagers alike style their package definitions and configuration files according to the latest fashionable trends. It can either reformat whole files, with the @@ -15342,6 +15354,7 @@ information about mismatches. @node Invoking guix copy @section Invoking @command{guix copy} +@cindex @command{guix copy} @cindex copy, of store items, over SSH @cindex SSH, copy of store items @cindex sharing store items across machines @@ -15459,6 +15472,7 @@ must be PID 1 of the container or one of its child processes. @node Invoking guix weather @section Invoking @command{guix weather} +@cindex @command{guix weather} Occasionally you're grumpy because substitutes are lacking and you end up building packages by yourself (@pxref{Substitutes}). The @command{guix weather} command reports on substitute availability on the @@ -15589,6 +15603,7 @@ Display the list of store items for which substitutes are missing. @node Invoking guix processes @section Invoking @command{guix processes} +@cindex @command{guix processes} The @command{guix processes} command can be useful to developers and system administrators, especially on multi-user machines and on build farms: it lists the current sessions (connections to the daemon), as well as information about @@ -37811,6 +37826,7 @@ like @node Invoking guix system @section Invoking @command{guix system} +@cindex @command{guix system} Once you have written an operating system declaration as seen in the previous section, it can be @dfn{instantiated} using the @command{guix system} command. The synopsis is: @@ -38457,6 +38473,7 @@ Again, the default output format is Dot/Graphviz, but you can pass @node Invoking guix deploy @section Invoking @command{guix deploy} +@cindex @command{guix deploy} We've already seen @code{operating-system} declarations used to manage a machine's configuration locally. Suppose you need to configure multiple machines, though---perhaps you're managing a service on the web that's @@ -41029,6 +41046,8 @@ A typical extension for adding a channel might look like this: @node Invoking guix home @section Invoking @command{guix home} +@cindex @command{guix home} + Once you have written a home environment declaration (@pxref{Declaring the Home Environment,,,,}, it can be @dfn{instantiated} using the @command{guix home} command. The synopsis is: |