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2020-04-19doc: Make install script more prominent....Suggested by Steven vanZyl <rushsteve1@rushsteve1.us>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add @example showing how to download the script. Use "systemctl enable --now". Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-17doc: Update nar decompression examples....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix archive): Show /gzip URL. Add cross-reference to "Invoking guix challenge". (Invoking guix challenge): Show /lzip URL. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> mikadoZero
2020-04-17maint: Provide the configuration file in the VM image....This fixes a bug introduced in 362bcdb1b076c8c46f71781add56dfbe532736dc whereby the VM image would no longer contain /etc/config.scm, contrary to what the manual says. Reported by dbdude on #guix. * Makefile.am (release): Pass '--save-provenance' to 'guix system vm-image'. * doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Adjust file name accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-17doc: Replace incorrect uses of @var with @code....@var is for meta-syntactic variables but it is used in some places for mere variables, which is incorrect and leads to inconsistent layout in PDF and HTML. * doc/guix.texi (package Reference, The Store Monad) (G-Expressions, operating-system Reference) (File Systems, Base Services, Log Rotation) (Networking Services, Invoking guix deploy): Replace incorrect uses of @var with @code. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-16doc: Document building and installing from JSON files....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Augment pargraphs for "--install-from-file". (Invoking guix build): Document building from JSON files. * doc/package-hello.json: New file. * doc/local.mk (EXTRA_DIST): Add it. Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-16doc: Add dicod-service-type in Dictionary Services....* doc/guix.texi (Miscellaneous Services): Add dicod-service-type in Dictionary Services. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> R Veera Kumar
2020-04-16doc: Remove bogus index entry....* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Remove bogus and redundant entry for 'copy-build-system'. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-15doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Add missing reference to `spice-vdagent-service' and misuse of @pxref. Nicolas Goaziou
2020-04-14doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Web Services)[nginx-php-fpm-location]: Replace 'nginx-php-fpm-location' by 'nginx-php-location'. Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> Brice Waegeneire
2020-04-08doc: Mention HTTP/HTTPS proxy in the system installation instructions....* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning): Mention 'herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon'. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-07services: guix: Add 'set-http-proxy' action....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/25569>. Reported by Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>. * gnu/services/base.scm (shepherd-set-http-proxy-action): New procedure. (guix-shepherd-service): Add 'actions' field. Change 'start' to a lambda; check the value of the "http_proxy" environment variable and add "http_proxy" and "https_proxy" to #:environment-variables as a function of that. * gnu/tests/base.scm (run-basic-test)["guix-daemon set-http-proxy action", "guix-daemon set-http-proxy action, clear"]: New tests. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06services: Add 'rottlog-service-type' to '%base-services'....* gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services): Add an instance of ROTTLOG-SERVICE-TYPE. * doc/guix.texi (Log Rotation): Mention that it's part of %BASE-SERVICES and change example. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06doc: Make 'fc-cache -rv' instructions more prominent....* doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Move the "fc-cache" instructions next to the Fontconfig paragraph and make the command more visible. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-06gnu: mumi: Update to 0.0.0-12.bb2fe92....* gnu/packages/mail.scm (mumi): Update to 0.0.0-12.bb2fe92. [inputs]: Add guile-gcrypt, guile-redis, guile-webutils, mailutils. * gnu/services/web.scm (<mumi-configuration>): New record type. (mumi-configuration, mumi-configuration?, mumi-configuration-mumi, mumi-configuration-mailer?, mumi-configuration-sender, mumi-configuration-smtp): New procedures. (mumi-shepherd-services): Accept configuration; adjust start commands; add Shepherd service for mumi mailer. (mumi-service-type): Pass default configuration. * doc/guix.texi (Web Services): Update documentation. Ricardo Wurmus
2020-04-06system: Allow for comma-separated keyboard layouts....Reported by Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>. * gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (keyboard-layout-file): Replace commas with hyphens in the first argument to 'computed-file'. * gnu/system/keyboard.scm (keyboard-layout->console-keymap): Likewise. * doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout): Add example. Ludovic Courtès
2020-04-05gnu: Add kernel-module-loader-service....* doc/guix.texi (Linux Services): Add a new subsection and document the new service and its configuration. * gnu/services/linux.scm (kernel-module-loader-service-type): New type. (kernel-module-loader-shepherd-service): New procedure. * gnu/tests/linux-modules.scm (module-loader-program): Procedure removed. (modules-loaded?-program): New procedure. (run-loadable-kernel-modules-test): 'module-loader-program' procedure replaced by the new one. [os]: Use 'kernel-module-loader-service'. Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-27services/nfs: Replace nfs-version with nfs-versions....Instead of accepting a string for just one protocol version accept a list of supported versions. * gnu/services/nfs.scm (<nfs-configuration>)[nfs-version]: Remove field and replace... [nfs-versions]: ...with this new field. (nfs-shepherd-services): Pass as many "--nfs-version" options as there are supported versions. * doc/guix.texi (Network File System): Document nfs-versions. Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-24doc: Document that a working environment for building Guix requires "--pure"....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix environment): Document that a working environment for building Guix requires "--pure". Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-24doc: Fix typo in example....* doc/guix.texi (Base Services)[file->udev-rule]: Correct misspelt "user-account". Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> Naga Malleswari
2020-03-24doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix time-machine): Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> Naga Malleswari
2020-03-23doc: Fix typo in example....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix deploy): Fix example to use '%user' variable defined above. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> Brice Waegeneire
2020-03-23doc: Add console-font-service-type to Base Services....* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Add console-font-service-type. Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> John Soo
2020-03-22system: Add kernel-loadable-modules to operating-system....* gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>): Add kernel-loadable-modules. (operating-system-directory-base-entries): Use it. * doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Document KERNEL-LOADABLE-MODULES. * gnu/build/linux-modules.scm (depmod): New procedure. (make-linux-module-directory): New procedure. Export it. * guix/profiles.scm (linux-module-database): New procedure. Export it. * gnu/tests/linux-modules.scm: New file. * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it. * gnu/packages/linux.scm (make-linux-libre*)[arguments]<#:phases>[install]: Disable depmod. Remove "build" and "source" symlinks. [native-inputs]: Remove kmod. Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-19doc: Update to reflect the current installation prefix of Emacs packages....* doc/guix.texi (Application Setup)[Emacs Packages]: No longer mention the guix.d Elisp installation prefix. Do not treat the user profile specially, as it is not special anymore. (Build Systems): Document the correct Elisp installation prefix. Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-18doc: Correctly state the size of the glibc-locales package....* doc/guix.texi (Application Setup): Give the correct size. Leo Famulari
2020-03-18doc: Follow-up commit to f6b950319c....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix deploy): Fix typo in example. Reported-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-17gnu: system: Export %sudoers-specification....Exporting this variable allows reusing the default value of the `sudoers-file' field when configuring it. * gnu/system.scm (gnu): Export %sudoers-specification. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix deploy): Document an example, to use with 'guix deploy'. Maxim Cournoyer
2020-03-17doc: Fix typo in prosody configuration....* doc/guix.texi (Messaging Services)[Prosody Service]: Switch 'cons' to 'cons*' in example prosody-service-type. Efraim Flashner
2020-03-16services: nginx: Fix broken default configuration....* gnu/services/web.scm (nginx-configuration): Emit an empty events{} block by default. * doc/guix.texi (Web Services): Document it. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-03-15services/web: nginx-configuration: Add support for global directives....* gnu/services/web.scm (<nginx-configuration>)[global-directives]: Add field. (emit-global-directive): New procedure. (default-nginx-config): Use it. * doc/guix.texi (Web Services): Document it. Ricardo Wurmus
2020-03-13doc: Update guidance about Python 2 package variants....* doc/contributing.texi (Python Modules): Don't recommend adding Python-2 package variants by default. Leo Famulari
2020-03-13weather: Exit with non-zero when coverage is below 100%....* guix/scripts/weather.scm (report-server-coverage): Return the coverage ratio. (guix-weather): Exit if and only if each server's coverage is 1. Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12weather: Allow for multiple '--manifest' options....* guix/scripts/weather.scm (guix-weather)[package-list]: Account for all the 'manifest entries in OPTS. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix weather): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12weather: Add '--display-missing'....* guix/scripts/weather.scm (report-server-coverage): Add #:display-missing? and honor it. (show-help, %options): Add "--display-missing". (guix-weather): Pass #:display-missing? to 'report-server-coverage'. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix weather): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12gexp: Add 'with-parameters'....* guix/gexp.scm (<parameterized>): New record type. (with-parameters): New macro. (compile-parameterized): New gexp compiler. * tests/gexp.scm ("with-parameters for %current-system") ("with-parameters for %current-target-system") ("with-parameters + file-append"): New tests. * doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2020-03-12doc: Fix description for "guix package -A"....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Fix description for "guix package -A". Danny Milosavljevic
2020-03-10doc: Use HTTPS for external links....* doc/contributing.texi (14.1 Building from Git, 14.3 The Perfect Setup, 14.4.1 Software Freedom, 14.4.4 Synopses and Descriptions, 14.5.4 Formatting Code): Use HTTPS for @uref{}s and @url{}s that support it. * doc/fdl-1.3.texi (Appendix A GNU Free Documentation License): Use HTTPS for @uref{}s and @url{}s that support it. * doc/guix.texi (6.3 Build Systems, 8.8.4 Networking Services, 8.8.8 Sound Services, 8.8.16 Web Services, 8.11 Name Service Switch, 12.2 Preparing to Use the Bootstrap Binaries); Use HTTPS for @uref{}s and @url{}s that support it. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> Vitaliy Shatrov
2020-03-08services: cuirass: Allow passing extra command line options....This is so that the options supported by the service configuration don't have to always be changed. Generally though all options should be explicitly supported and documented, so this is mostly to facilitate experimentation. * gnu/services/cuirass.scm (<cuirass-configuration>): Add an extra-options field. (cuirass-shepherd-service): Pass the extra options to the shepherd servvices. * doc/guix.texi (Continuous Integration): Document it. Christopher Baines
2020-03-08services: guix-data-service: Allow passing extra options....This is so that the options supported by the service configuration don't have to always be changed. Generally though all options should be explicitly supported and documented, so this is mostly to facilitate experimentation. * gnu/services/guix.scm (<guix-data-service-configuration>): Add extra-options and extra-process-jobs-options to the record type. (guix-data-service-shepherd-services): Handle these new configuration record fields. * doc/guix.texi (Guix Data Service): Document these new options. Christopher Baines
2020-03-08services: certbot: Add server option....* gnu/services/certbot.scm (certbot-configuration): Add server option. (certbot-command): Use server option. (certbot-actication): Use server option. (certbot-nginx-server-configurations): Use server option. * doc/guix.texi (Certificate Services): Document server option. Co-authored-by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Jack Hill
2020-03-01doc: Fix some typos....* doc/guix.texi: Various typo fixes. Eric Bavier
2020-02-22build: Depend on guile-ssh 0.12.0...This is a followup to 35f35111678e6622301b414f3d464acb71e106bb. * m4/guix.m4 (GUIX_CHECK_GUILE_SSH): Check for userauth-gssapi! * doc/guix.texi: Document version requirement Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Lars-Dominik Braun
2020-02-21doc: Fix copy-build-system specification....* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Files must match one or more filters, not exactly one. Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-21doc: Fix indentation....This follows up on commit e90e64049ce160d28d1e8b3014badcc2b214627c, which broke ‘guix pull’. * doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Un-indent. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-02-21doc: Fix typos....* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Add missing hash to "#:exclude", and a comma after "e.g.". Use @file and @var appropriately. Nicolas Goaziou
2020-02-21build-system: Add copy-build-system....* guix/build-system/copy.scm: New file. * guix/build/copy-build-system.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them. * doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Document 'copy-build-system'. Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20doc: Use two spaces after full stops....* doc/guix.texi (The Store): Use two spaces after full stops. Nicolas Goaziou
2020-02-20ssh: Add Kerberos-support to ssh:// daemon URLs...* guix/ssh.scm (open-ssh-session): Fall back to GSSAPI if public key authentication does not work Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Lars-Dominik Braun
2020-02-19gnu: services: Add openvpn options....* gnu/services/vpn.scm (openvpn-client-configuration) (openvpn-server-configuration): Add fast-io? and auth-user-pass options. Julien Lepiller
2020-02-16doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (X Window)[sddm-service-type]: SSDM -> SDDM typo fix. [sddm-configuration]: Also list 'maya' theme. * gnu/services/sddm.scm (sddm-service): Fix typo in doc string. (sddm-configuration): Also list 'maya' theme. Efraim Flashner