From 107b8da6228fca888a0801c3eadf4bb23a6b46a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 22:59:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Mention 'guix pack' reproducibility.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pack): Mention reproducibility.
---
doc/guix.texi | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 45d171c52da..bdbfedfdb57 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2405,7 +2405,9 @@ The @command{guix pack} command creates a shrink-wrapped @dfn{pack} or
containing the binaries of the software you're interested in, and all
its dependencies. The resulting archive can be used on any machine that
does not have Guix, and people can run the exact same binaries as those
-you have with Guix.
+you have with Guix. The pack itself is created in a bit-reproducible
+fashion, so anyone can verify that it really contains the build results
+that you pretend to be shipping.
For example, to create a bundle containing Guile, Emacs, Geiser, and all
their dependencies, you can run:
--
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