From 5918cb5341ecd76304eef2cb529e20896b56f4e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxim Cournoyer Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:50:01 -0400 Subject: doc: Sync the client and daemon --rounds options documentation. Fixes . * doc/guix.texi (Common Build Options): Suggest using '--keep-failed' to keep differing build results in the store rather than 'guix archive'. Reported-by: Jonathan Brielmaier --- doc/guix.texi | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 94afdffee3..8514dfe86f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -9155,11 +9155,9 @@ Non-deterministic build processes are a problem because they make it practically impossible for users to @emph{verify} whether third-party binaries are genuine. @xref{Invoking guix challenge}, for more. -Note that, currently, the differing build results are not kept around, -so you will have to manually investigate in case of an error---e.g., by -stashing one of the build results with @code{guix archive --export} -(@pxref{Invoking guix archive}), then rebuilding, and finally comparing -the two results. +When used in conjunction with @option{--keep-failed}, the differing +output is kept in the store, under @file{/gnu/store/@dots{}-check}. +This makes it easy to look for differences between the two results. @item --no-offload Do not use offload builds to other machines (@pxref{Daemon Offload -- cgit 1.4.1