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-*- org -*-
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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
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are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
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notice and this notice are preserved.
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Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org.
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* Changes in 0.8 (since 0.7)
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** Package management
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*** New visual user interface in Emacs
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See “Emacs Interface” in the manual.
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*** New ‘guix environment’ command to produce development environment
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See “Invoking guix environment” in the manual.
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*** The ‘guix import’ command has been extended and documented
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It can now import packages from pypi.python.org and from GNU.
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See “Invoking guix import” in the manual.
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*** New ‘guix lint’ command, for use by Guix developers
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See “Invoking guix lint” in the manual.
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*** Packages can now be “grafted” with replacements of their dependencies
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See “Security Updates” in the manual.
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*** The distribution can be extended with ‘--load-path’ or $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
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This allows users to maintain their own package definitions, and make them
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visible to the various user interfaces. See “Package Modules” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix package’ better reports package upgrades
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*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--switch-generation’ option
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See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ has a new ‘--substitute-urls’ option
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See “Invoking guix-daemon” in the manual.
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** Distribution
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*** The stand-alone operating system now supports Linux mapped devices
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See “Mapped Devices” in the manual.
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*** New fields in ‘operating-system’ declarations, better documentation
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New fields include ‘hosts-file’, ‘mapped-devices’, and ‘swap-devices’.
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See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
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*** New services: ‘dhcp-client-service’, ‘bitlbee-service’, ‘ntp-service’
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See “Services” in the manual.
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*** Free firmware can be loaded
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This notably enables support for some Atheros-based WiFi devices (ath9k-htc.)
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See “operating-system Reference” in the manual.
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*** ‘grub-configuration’ declarations can now specify a theme
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See “GRUB Configuration” in the manual.
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*** The ‘base-initrd’ now has a different signature
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Existing uses in ‘operating-system’ declarations need to be updated. See
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“Initial RAM Disk” in the manual for details.
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*** eudev is now used by default, instead of an old udev release
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*** ‘guix system vm’ has a new ‘--full-boot’ option
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See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
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*** The ‘file’ command is now part of the package build environment
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Autoconf-generated ‘configure’ scripts for packages using Libtool use ‘file’
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to determine the target ABI, notably on MIPS, hence this change.
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*** 162 new packages
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abiword, acpica, adns, arb, ath9k-htc-firmware, atlas, avrdude, cppunit,
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dblatex, detox, dfu-programmer, dionysus, direvent, dmidecode, dri3proto,
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emacs-no-x-toolkit, emacs-w3m, emacs-wget, enchant, eudev, feh, flashrom,
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flint, fontforge, freedink, freeimage, fribidi,
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gcc-cross-sans-libc-xtensa-elf, giblib, gnome-themes-standard, gpsbabel,
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gpscorrelate, graphite2, gtypist, guile-charting, guile-sdl, imake, imlib2,
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irrlicht, jbig2dec, libpsl, libspiro, libuninameslist, libwmf, lm-sensors,
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magit, minetest, miscfiles, mozjs, mupdf, nix, nspr, nss-mdns, ntp, nvi, opam,
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openal, openjpeg, opus-tools, orpheus, ots, oxygen-icons, paredit, perf,
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perl-archive-zip, perl-dbd-sqlite, perl-dbi, perl-image-exiftool,
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perl-io-socket-ssl, perl-net-ssleay, perl-www-curl, perl-zip, polkit,
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polkit-qt, postgresql, potrace, presentproto, python-certifi, python-coverage,
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python-cython, python-discover, python-docutils, python-exif-read,
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python-extras, python-fixtures, python-itsdangerous, python-jinja2,
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python-jsonschema, python-markupsafe, python-mimeparse, python-nose,
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python-oauthlib, python-py, python-pygments, python-pyjwt, python-pyld,
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python-pytest, python-scripttest, python-sphinx, python-subunit,
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python-testrepository, python-testresources, python-testscenarios,
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python-testtools, python-unidecode, python-unittest2, python-virtualenv,
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python2-certifi, python2-coverage, python2-cython, python2-discover,
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python2-docutils, python2-exif-read, python2-extras, python2-fixtures,
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python2-itsdangerous, python2-jinja2, python2-jsonschema, python2-markupsafe,
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python2-mimeparse, python2-nose, python2-oauthlib, python2-py,
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python2-pygments, python2-pyjwt, python2-pyld, python2-pytest,
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python2-requests, python2-scripttest, python2-sphinx, python2-subunit,
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python2-testrepository, python2-testresources, python2-testscenarios,
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python2-testtools, python2-unidecode, python2-unittest2, python2-virtualenv,
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rrdtool, ruby, ruby, ruby-i18n, sane-backends, scrot, sound-theme-freedesktop,
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stress, synergy, tdb, terminus-font, testdisk, texi2html, tiled, transfig,
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unclutter, unixodbc, weechat, wv, xboing, xf86-video-modesetting, xfig,
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xsensors, zsh
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*** 117 package updates
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acct-6.6.2, acl-2.2.52, apl-1.4, apr-1.5.1, apr-util-1.5.3, autoconf-2.68,
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autoconf-2.69, autogen-5.18.4, bash-4.3.30, bash-light-4.3.30, bazaar-2.6.0,
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bison-2.7, calcurse-3.2.1, ccache-3.1.10, chicken-4.9.0.1, coreutils-8.23,
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curl-7.37.1, datamash-1.0.6, dbus-1.8.8, docbook-xml-4.2, docbook-xml-4.4,
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docbook-xml-4.5, emacs-24.4, ffmpeg-2.2.10, ffmpeg-2.4.3, file-5.19,
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file-5.20, freeipmi-1.4.5, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.9.2, gcc-toolchain-4.9.2,
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gcl-2.6.11, gdb-7.8.1, geiser-0.6, gettext-0.19.3, git-2.1.2, glibc-2.20,
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glibc-2.20, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.20, global-6.3.2, glpk-4.55,
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gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.26, gnurl-7.37.0, gnutls-3.2.20, gpgme-1.5.1,
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gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-3.9.16,
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guile-1.8.8, guile-json-0.4.0, guile-ncurses-1.6, guile-ssh-0.7.1, guix-0.7,
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guix-0.7.48bd76e, hello-2.10, help2man-1.46.3, icecat-31.2.0,
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libart-lgpl-2.3.21, libassuan-2.1.3, libatomic-ops-7.4.2, libdrm-2.4.33,
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libffi-3.1, libgc-7.2f, libgc-7.4.2, libgcrypt-1.5.4, libgcrypt-1.6.2,
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libidn-1.29, libjpeg-9a, libotr-4.0.0, libsodium-1.0.0, libtasn1-4.1,
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libunistring-0.9.4, libwebsockets-1.3, lightning-2.0.5, linux-libre-3.17.3,
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lsof-4.88, lua-5.2.3, lvm2-2.02.109, lzip-1.16, make-4.1, maxima-5.34.1,
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mit-scheme-9.2, mysql-5.1.73, neon-0.30.0, net-base-5.3, nettle-2.7.1,
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notmuch-0.18.1, openssh-6.7p1, openssl-1.0.1j, parallel-20141022,
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phonon-4.8.2, pspp-0.8.4, python-3.3.5, python-dateutil-1.5,
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python2-dateutil-1.5, python2-pyicu-1.8, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.3.2, rcs-5.9.3,
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readline-6.3, subversion-1.7.18, swig-3.0.2, tar-1.28, texinfo-5.2,
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tor-0.2.5.10, transmission-2.84, ucommon-6.1.11, valgrind-3.10.0, vlc-2.1.5,
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wget-1.16, windowmaker-0.95.6, xapian-1.2.18, xf86-video-ati-6.14.6,
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xpdf-3.04, youtube-dl-2014.09.06
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New ‘ruby-build-system’, for Ruby packages
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See “Build Systems” in the manual.
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*** New ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, for packages using GLib schemas
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See “Build Systems” in the manual.
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*** ‘gnu-build-system’ has a new #:substitutable? parameter
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This allows packagers to mark a package as requiring a local build, thus
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preventing it from being substituted by a pre-built binary.
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*** ‘cmake-build-system’ has a new #:build-type parameter
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See “Build Systems” in the manual.
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*** The ‘supported-systems’ field of packages is used more consistently
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This allows packagers to prevent attempts to build a package on a given
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architecture when that architecture is known not to be supported. The
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‘package-transitive-supported-systems’ procedure returns the intersection of
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the systems supported by the given package and by its dependencies.
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*** The ‘wrap-program’ procedure can now be called multiple times
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*** New ‘graft-derivations’ and ‘package-grafts’ procedures
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They implement “grafts”, as described under “Security Updates” in the manual.
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*** New “bag” intermediate representation for use by build systems
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“Bags” are used internally as an intermediate representation between packages
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and derivations. See “Build Systems” in the manual.
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*** New (guix monad-repl) module, for monadic interaction at the REPL
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See “The Store Monad” in the manual.
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*** New (guix build emacs-utils) module, to facilitate building Emacs packages
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*** New (guix tests) module, with tools used by the test suite
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*** The internal ‘guix-register’ command now deduplicates files in store items
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*** Several system modules moved from (guix build …) to (gnu build …)
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Also, the (gnu build linux-boot) module has been introduced, with code
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typically used by initial RAM disks when booting on GNU/Linux-libre.
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*** (guix profiles) provides a representation of package transactions
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This factorizes code between ‘guix package’ and the Emacs user interface.
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*** Bootstrapping packages moved to (gnu packages commencement) modules
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** Bugs fixed
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ now really deduplicates store items by default
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Deduplication means that identical files found in /gnu/store are stored only
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once, using hard links. This feature was wrongfully disabled, and is now
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enabled by default. The former ‘--disable-store-optimization’ option has been
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renamed to ‘--disable-deduplication’.
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ no longer uses ‘vfork’
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This could cause problems with ancient Linux kernel.
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*** Fixed compilation of ‘gccgo’ (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18101>)
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*** 'make clean' doesn't delete os-config.tmpl (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18243>)
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*** Fix handling of periods by fill-paragraph (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17468>)
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*** Produce a top-level Info 'dir' file (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18305>)
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*** guix offload ignores unreachable machines (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18070>)
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*** guix offload: Ignore EEXIST when registering a .drv as a GC root
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18115>)
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*** perl-tk: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18262>)
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*** download: Use the 'SERVER NAME' TLS extension when possible
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18526>)
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*** libdaemon: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18639>)
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*** icu4c: Reinstate RUNPATH on shared libraries
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18695>)
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*** nss-mdns: Add alternate source URLs (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18704>)
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*** download: Add "Accept: */*" to the HTTP headers
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18768>)
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*** guix-register: Do not attempt to create NIX_STORE_DIR
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18689>)
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*** Allow Linux-libre to find our 'modprobe' command
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>)
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*** man-pages: Build sequentially (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18701>)
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*** Fix intermittent test failures involving GC (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18935>)
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*** guix import: pypi: Gracefully handle non-existent packages
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18831>)
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*** Make sure the shared library has the '.so' extension
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18521>)
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*** pull: Use the build procedure provided by the newly-downloaded Guix.
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/18534>)
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*** WindowMaker no longer pollutes $PATH (<http://bugs.gnu.org/18698>)
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** Native language support
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*** New translation: cs (Czech)
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*** Updated translations: de, sr, vi
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* Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
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** Package management
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*** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org
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These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already
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provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See
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“Substitutes” in the manual.
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*** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option
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*** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions”
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G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side
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code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual.
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*** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions
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This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries
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references to the packages or derivations it uses.
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*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions
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*** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized
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*** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images
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*** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation”
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*** New (guix build syscalls) module
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*** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation
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*** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system
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*** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations
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*** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules
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*** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field
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This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time.
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** GNU distribution
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*** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided
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This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System
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Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted
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in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome!
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*** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations
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Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list
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of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration”
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in the manual.
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*** ‘guix system’ supports more actions
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Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’.
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See “Invoking guix system” in the manual.
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*** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time
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*** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices
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*** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs
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*** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>)
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*** 134 new packages
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abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp,
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chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat,
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doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi,
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fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice,
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gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools,
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jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui,
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libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas,
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libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt,
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libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages,
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maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl,
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offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc,
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petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf,
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pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock,
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python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto,
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python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode,
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rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse,
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strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy,
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transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools,
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wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl
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*** 87 package updates
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bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2,
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docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6,
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ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4,
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gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3,
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gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3,
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gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1,
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gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a,
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gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20,
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gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
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guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3,
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icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e,
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libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37,
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libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4,
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linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6,
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neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1,
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pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2,
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qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2,
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screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22,
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wdiff-1.2.2, xorriso-1.3.8, xterm-304
|
||
|
||
** Native language support
|
||
*** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
|
||
*** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
|
||
*** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
|
||
** Bugs fixed
|
||
*** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
|
||
*** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
|
||
(<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
|
||
*** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
|
||
*** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
|
||
*** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
|
||
*** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
|
||
*** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
|
||
|
||
* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
|
||
** Package management
|
||
*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
|
||
|
||
Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
|
||
directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
|
||
|
||
*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
|
||
*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
|
||
*** New ‘guix archive’ command
|
||
*** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
|
||
*** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
|
||
*** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
|
||
*** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
|
||
*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
|
||
*** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
|
||
*** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
|
||
*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
|
||
** Programming interfaces
|
||
*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
|
||
*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
|
||
*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
|
||
*** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
|
||
*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
|
||
*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
|
||
*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
|
||
** GNU distribution
|
||
*** 91 new packages
|
||
|
||
a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
|
||
aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
|
||
corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
|
||
fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
|
||
gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
|
||
guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
|
||
isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
|
||
libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
|
||
ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
|
||
ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
|
||
perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
|
||
source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
|
||
unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
|
||
|
||
*** 90 package updates
|
||
|
||
apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
|
||
bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
|
||
coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
|
||
gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
|
||
glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
|
||
gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
|
||
gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
|
||
guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
|
||
guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
|
||
imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
|
||
libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
|
||
libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
|
||
linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
|
||
openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
|
||
pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
|
||
python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
|
||
qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
|
||
recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
|
||
tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
|
||
xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
|
||
*** libc’s Info manual is now installed
|
||
*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
|
||
*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
|
||
*** Many other packaging improvements
|
||
** Bugs fixed
|
||
*** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
|
||
*** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
|
||
*** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
|
||
(http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
|
||
*** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
|
||
*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
|
||
(http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
|
||
*** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
|
||
*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
|
||
*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
|
||
*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
|
||
|
||
* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
|
||
** Package management
|
||
*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
|
||
|
||
In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
|
||
with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
|
||
meta-data.
|
||
|
||
** Programming interfaces
|
||
*** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
|
||
|
||
The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
|
||
‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
|
||
‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
*** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
|
||
|
||
See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
|
||
rewritten to use this monadic interface.
|
||
|
||
*** New (guix profiles) module
|
||
|
||
It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
|
||
command.
|
||
|
||
*** New (gnu system) module
|
||
|
||
This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
|
||
and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
|
||
See “System Configuration” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
|
||
|
||
*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
|
||
|
||
Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
|
||
See “Derivations” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
** GNU distribution
|
||
*** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
|
||
|
||
Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
|
||
Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
|
||
packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
|
||
build from source on this platform.
|
||
|
||
*** 110 new packages
|
||
|
||
acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
|
||
automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
|
||
fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
|
||
gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
|
||
gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
|
||
icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
|
||
libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
|
||
libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
|
||
pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
|
||
perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
|
||
perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
|
||
perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
|
||
perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
|
||
phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
|
||
qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
|
||
sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
|
||
xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
|
||
|
||
*** 47 package updates
|
||
|
||
atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
|
||
gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
|
||
gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
|
||
gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
|
||
gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
|
||
harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
|
||
libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
|
||
linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
|
||
pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
|
||
qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
|
||
tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
|
||
|
||
*** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
|
||
|
||
** Native language support
|
||
*** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
|
||
*** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
|
||
*** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
|
||
** Bugs fixed
|
||
*** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
|
||
|
||
Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
|
||
calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
|
||
|
||
*** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
|
||
(http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
|
||
*** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
|
||
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
|
||
*** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
|
||
*** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
|
||
*** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
|
||
|
||
* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
|
||
|
||
** Package management
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
|
||
|
||
The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
|
||
deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘guix-register’ program
|
||
|
||
This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
|
||
copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
|
||
|
||
** Programming interfaces
|
||
|
||
*** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
|
||
|
||
The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
|
||
package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
|
||
runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
|
||
|
||
*** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
|
||
|
||
This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
|
||
tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
|
||
This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
|
||
to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
|
||
|
||
*** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
|
||
|
||
The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
|
||
procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
|
||
‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
|
||
system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
|
||
packages, and where Guix can be used.
|
||
|
||
New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
|
||
various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
|
||
support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
|
||
PAM configuration; and so on.
|
||
|
||
*** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
|
||
|
||
‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
|
||
<derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
|
||
a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
|
||
file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
** GNU distribution
|
||
|
||
*** 60 new packages
|
||
|
||
apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
|
||
freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
|
||
gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
|
||
itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
|
||
net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
|
||
python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
|
||
python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
|
||
python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
|
||
qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
|
||
valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
|
||
|
||
*** 27 package updates
|
||
|
||
bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
|
||
gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
|
||
gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
|
||
imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
|
||
linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
|
||
3.3.2, texlive 2013
|
||
|
||
*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
|
||
|
||
Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
|
||
based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
|
||
fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
|
||
|
||
*** More GUI applications
|
||
|
||
The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
|
||
applications have been added (see above.)
|
||
|
||
*** Packaging guidelines
|
||
|
||
The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
|
||
under “GNU Distribution”.
|
||
|
||
*** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
|
||
|
||
Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
|
||
it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
|
||
section of the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
** Internationalization
|
||
|
||
Updated translations: eo.
|
||
|
||
** Bugs fixed
|
||
|
||
*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
|
||
*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
|
||
*** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
|
||
*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
|
||
*** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
|
||
*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
|
||
|
||
* Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
|
||
|
||
** Package management
|
||
|
||
*** Cross-compilation support
|
||
|
||
Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with
|
||
the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level,
|
||
the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages
|
||
of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for
|
||
details.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
|
||
|
||
See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
|
||
|
||
This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
|
||
to download a substitute.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
|
||
|
||
See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
|
||
|
||
See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
** Programming interfaces
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
|
||
|
||
See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
|
||
|
||
This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It
|
||
allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
|
||
whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
|
||
|
||
*** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
|
||
|
||
This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
|
||
|
||
|
||
** GNU distribution
|
||
|
||
*** 33 new packages
|
||
|
||
alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
|
||
gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
|
||
iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
|
||
rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
|
||
|
||
*** 25 package updates
|
||
|
||
automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
|
||
glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8,
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libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error
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1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu
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1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0
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*** Binary packages now available for i686-linux
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The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries
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(i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be
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transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms.
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*** Debug info packages
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Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The
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“debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the
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other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual.
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*** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled
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The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently
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GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting”
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in the manual.
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*** Bootstrapping documented
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See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU
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distribution builds “from scratch”.
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** Internationalization
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New translations: eo, pt_BR.
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|
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** Bugs fixed
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*** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5
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*** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed
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||
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These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary.
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See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details.
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*** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
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|
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*** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
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|
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Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when
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some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and
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https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 .
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|
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*** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
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|
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Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the
|
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profile.
|
||
|
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*** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken
|
||
|
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When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile
|
||
< 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect
|
||
command-line argument processing in some cases.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
|
||
|
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** Package management
|
||
|
||
*** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
|
||
|
||
Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
|
||
on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
|
||
setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
|
||
|
||
*** New “guix package --upgrade” option
|
||
|
||
As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
|
||
installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
|
||
See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
|
||
|
||
*** New “guix package --search” option
|
||
|
||
Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
|
||
the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the
|
||
manual, for details.
|
||
|
||
*** New “guix pull” command
|
||
|
||
The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
|
||
modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
|
||
|
||
*** New binary substituter
|
||
|
||
The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
|
||
downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
|
||
available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
|
||
distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
|
||
|
||
See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
|
||
available binary packages.
|
||
|
||
*** New “guix refresh” command
|
||
|
||
The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
|
||
distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
|
||
|
||
*** New “guix hash” command
|
||
|
||
Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
|
||
details.
|
||
|
||
*** Nix daemon code updated
|
||
|
||
The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
|
||
to current Nix ‘master’.
|
||
|
||
** Programming interfaces
|
||
|
||
*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
|
||
|
||
It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
|
||
|
||
*** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
|
||
|
||
Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
|
||
that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
|
||
package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
|
||
‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
|
||
These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
|
||
uses one of these.
|
||
|
||
*** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
|
||
|
||
The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
|
||
(%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
|
||
tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
|
||
|
||
*** New build systems
|
||
|
||
The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
|
||
been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
|
||
CMake packages.
|
||
|
||
*** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
|
||
|
||
The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
|
||
initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
|
||
evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
|
||
mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
|
||
|
||
(expression->initrd
|
||
'(begin
|
||
(mkdir "/proc")
|
||
(mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
|
||
((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
|
||
|
||
More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
|
||
|
||
Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
|
||
(gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
|
||
‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
|
||
a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
|
||
|
||
** GNU distribution
|
||
|
||
Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
|
||
highlights.
|
||
|
||
*** Major updates
|
||
|
||
GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
|
||
Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
|
||
|
||
*** Noteworthy new packages
|
||
|
||
TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
|
||
CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.
|