On 06/16/2018 at 00:24 Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >>> Proposed (revised) footnote: >>> >>> (3) The Guix version in the Guix build is set by './bootstrap'. Thus, >>> the version reported by './pre-inst-env guix --version' is not updated >>> by subsequent 'git pull; make' steps. To update the version (and rebuild >>> everything), use 'git clean -dfx; ./bootstrap; ./configure; make'. >> >> I’m wary of adding this for similar reasons that Ludo wrote earlier. In >> my opinion this ends up cluttering the manual with notes and what I >> consider to be only tangentially relevant for readers of the manual. > > An alternative might be to change the output of “guix --version” in the > presence of GUIX_UNINSTALLED, which is set by “pre-inst-env”. This > could be a simple change in “show-version-and-exit” that would use > something other than “%guix-version” when GUIX_UNINSTALLED is set. > > What do others think? > > -- > Ricardo
I like it.