* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (gnu-package?): New procedure.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (waiting): New macro.
(check-package-freshness): New procedure.
(guix-package)[process-actions]: Use it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention the feature.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (read/eval-package-expression): New
procedure.
(show-help): Add `-e'.
(%options): Likewise.
(guix-package)[process-actions]: Handle ('install . p) pairs, where P
is a package.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Add `boot_make_drv'. Use `-i $boot_make_drv'
once, and then use `-e $boot_make'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document `-e'.
* guix/ui.scm (show-what-to-build): Return (length req*).
* guix/scripts/pull.scm (guix-pull): Print an "already up to date"
message when there's nothing to build.
* guix/scripts/pull.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull): New node.
(Invoking guix package): Add cross-ref to it.
* guix/ui.scm (config-directory): New procedure.
* scripts/guix.in: When `GUIX_UNINSTALLED' is undefined, add
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/guix/latest to the search path.
* po/POTFILES.in: Add guix/scripts/pull.scm.
* guix/utils.scm (version-compare, version>?): New exported procedures,
based on version-string>?, which was formerly in gnu-maintenance.scm.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (version-string>?): Removed procedure.
(latest-release): Use 'version>?' instead of 'version-string>?'.
* guix/build/union.scm (union-build): Prepend "." to the result of
`union-tree', to match the expectations of `delete-duplicate-leaves'.
Don't do mkdir when SUBDIR is ".".
* tests/union.scm ("union-build"): Keep duplicates in %BOOTSTRAP-INPUTS.
* guix/store.scm (%protocol-version): Bump.
(operation-id): Comment out `query-substitutable-path-info'.
Rename `query-valid-paths' to `query-all-valid-paths'. Add
`query-path-from-hash-part', `query-substitutable-path-infos',
`query-valid-paths', and `query-substitutable-paths'.
(set-build-options): Add `binary-caches' keyword parameter. When
using a server >= 1.12, send the list of binary caches.
(query-path-hash): Use the `store-path' type, for clarity.
* guix/ui.scm (fill-paragraph, string->recutils, package->recutils): New
procedures.
* guix-package.in (guix-package)[process-query]: Use `package->recutils'
to display package meta-data.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Adjust test.
* tests/ui.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (TESTS): Add it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-package): Adjust `--search'
documentation, and give an example.
* guix/derivations.scm (read-derivation): Rename to...
(%read-derivation): ... this.
(read-derivation): New procedure.
This reduces the execution of "guix-build gdb" from 2.5s to 1.7s.
* guix/store.scm (open-connection): Call `make-hash-table' with 100.
(add-text-to-store): Move TEXT first in ARGS, for better `hash'
results.
(add-to-store): Likewise, move ST first.
* guix/store.scm (add-to-store): Remove the `fixed?' parameter from the
public interface.
* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm, guix-download.in, guix/derivations.scm,
guix/packages.scm, tests/derivations.scm: Update all callers
accordingly.
* guix/store.scm (operation): New macro.
(define-operation): Define in terms of `operation'.
(add-text-to-store): Define using `operation', and remove now
unnecessary `set!'.
(add-to-store): Likewise.
(add-text-to-store/cached, add-to-store/cached): Remove.
* guix/store.scm (write-string): Optimize to write the length, contents,
and padding all at once. This yields a 2% improvement on the
execution time of "guix-build gdb".
* guix/ui.scm (install-locale): New procedure.
* guix-build.in, guix-download.in, guix-gc.in, guix-import.in,
guix-package.in: Use it instead of (setlocale LC_ALL "").
* guix/store.scm (<nix-server>)[atts-cache]: New field.
(add-text-to-store/cached): New procedure. Use it as a wrapper around
`add-text-to-store'.
When running "guix-build gdb", this reduces the number of RPCs from
3048 to 289, and execution time from 4.7s to 2.6s.
* guix/store.scm (<nix-server>)[ats-cache]: New field.
(open-connection): Update accordingly.
(add-to-store/cached): Use (nix-server-add-to-store-cache SERVER)
instead of a weak hash table.
* guix/store.scm (add-to-store/cached): New variable.
Use it as the new `add-to-store'.
This reduces the number of RPCs when doing "guix-build gdb" from 5009
to 3053, and the execution time from 7s to 3.9s.
* guix/packages.scm (<package>)[inputs]: Mark as thunked.
(package-derivation)[expand-input]: Remove case where the input is a
procedure.
* tests/packages.scm ("trivial with system-dependent input"): Remove
`lambda', and use (%current-system).
* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (package-from-tarball): Likewise for `inputs'.
(%bootstrap-glibc, %bootstrap-gcc): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/scheme.scm (mit-scheme): Likewise.