From 9d0b9c7c6c0b0d45653dea80b499314ea415d3c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 22:38:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] maint: Provide the configuration file in the VM image. This fixes a bug introduced in 362bcdb1b076c8c46f71781add56dfbe532736dc whereby the VM image would no longer contain /etc/config.scm, contrary to what the manual says. Reported by dbdude on #guix. * Makefile.am (release): Pass '--save-provenance' to 'guix system vm-image'. * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Adjust file name accordingly. --- Makefile.am | 1 + doc/guix.texi | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index afbf4eb20a..d9d7ffd6c5 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ release: dist-with-updated-version for system in $(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_SYSTEMS) ; do \ image=`$(top_builddir)/pre-inst-env \ guix system vm-image $(GUIX_SYSTEM_VM_IMAGE_FLAGS) \ + --save-provenance \ --system=$$system --fallback \ gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl` ; \ if [ ! -f "$$image" ] ; then \ diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index f6522a9942..0fb81e441f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -27252,7 +27252,8 @@ This image boots the Xfce graphical environment and it contains some commonly-used tools. You can install more software in the image by running @command{guix package} in a terminal (@pxref{Invoking guix package}). You can also reconfigure the system based on its initial configuration file available -as @file{/etc/config.scm} (@pxref{Using the Configuration System}). +as @file{/run/current-system/configuration.scm} (@pxref{Using the +Configuration System}). Instead of using this pre-built image, one can also build their own virtual machine image using @command{guix system vm-image} (@pxref{Invoking guix