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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 43198a0af1..ed442d3f9b 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -11600,6 +11600,28 @@ using this mode, the symbol of the package is made by appending the version to its name, so that multiple versions of the same package can coexist. @end table + +@item egg +@cindex egg +Import metadata for @uref{https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs, CHICKEN eggs}. +The information is taken from @file{PACKAGE.egg} files found in the +@uref{git://code.call-cc.org/eggs-5-latest, eggs-5-latest} Git +repository. However, it does not provide all the information that we +need, there is no ``description'' field, and the licenses used are not +always precise (BSD is often used instead of BSD-N). + +@example +guix import egg sourcehut +@end example + +Additional options include: +@table @code +@item --recursive +@itemx -r +Traverse the dependency graph of the given upstream package recursively +and generate package expressions for all those packages that are not yet +in Guix. +@end table @end table The structure of the @command{guix import} code is modular. It would be @@ -11754,6 +11776,8 @@ the updater for KDE packages; the updater for X.org packages; @item kernel.org the updater for packages hosted on kernel.org; +@item egg +the updater for @uref{https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs/, Egg} packages; @item elpa the updater for @uref{https://elpa.gnu.org/, ELPA} packages; @item cran |