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| author | Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> | 2024-05-09 01:13:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-06-26 23:34:59 +0200 |
| commit | 398393187cc48f449215b14cf18b13fefb228558 (patch) | |
| tree | dd916f42ce69d5cc49b8151eef7da94a2ffbc60c /doc | |
| parent | 6aaff90ad623232f6952fdbad1211eacfcc35219 (diff) | |
| download | guix-398393187cc48f449215b14cf18b13fefb228558.tar.gz guix-398393187cc48f449215b14cf18b13fefb228558.zip | |
doc: Warn about extra-special-file usage in /etc.
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services)[extra-special-file]: Add warning regarding
files in /etc.
Change-Id: Ic45465c8712d61caeed42d7912777368e8763a1a
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 9fbe890e5c..500a462bfb 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -19070,6 +19070,10 @@ symlink: (extra-special-file "/usr/bin/env" (file-append coreutils "/bin/env")) @end lisp + +This procedure is meant for @code{/bin/sh}, @code{/usr/bin/env} and +similar targets. In particular, use for targets under @code{/etc} might +not work as expected if the target is managed by Guix in other ways. @end deffn @defvar host-name-service-type |