From df2ce34385376ea895580d2a3e9d75e64790919d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 23:42:35 +0200
Subject: guix system: Add '--system' option.

* guix/scripts/system.scm (switch-to-system): Add #:system parameter;
  pass it to 'run-with-store'.
  (%options): Add '--system'.
  (guix-system): Pass the 'system' option to 'run-with-store',
  'package-derivation', and 'switch-to-system' calls.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document '--system' and
  '--image-size'.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'doc/guix.texi')

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7930572f27..72fc4b94c2 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3445,7 +3445,21 @@ using the following command:
 @end table
 
 @var{options} can contain any of the common build options provided by
-@command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}).
+@command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}).  In addition,
+@var{options} can contain one of the following:
+
+@table @option
+@item --system=@var{system}
+@itemx -s @var{system}
+Attempt to build for @var{system} instead of the host's system type.
+This works as per @command{guix build} (@pxref{Invoking guix build}).
+
+@item --image-size=@var{size}
+For the @code{vm-image} and @code{disk-image} actions, create an image
+of the given @var{size}.  @var{size} may be a number of bytes, or it may
+include a unit as a suffix, such as @code{MiB} for mebibytes and
+@code{GB} for gigabytes.
+@end table
 
 Note that all the actions above, except @code{build} and @code{init},
 rely on KVM support in the Linux-Libre kernel.  Specifically, the
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