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2015-05-22doc: Clarify the module file name convention....* doc/guix.texi (Package Modules): Clarify the footnote about the module file names convention. Tweak the wording. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-22doc: More cross-references....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Add xref to "package Reference". (package Reference): Add xref to "Invoking guix package". Expound 'native-inputs' example, and add xref to "Invoking guix lint". Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-22doc: Add a cross-reference to "origin Reference"....* doc/guix.texi (Defining Packages): Add xref to "origin Reference". Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-22doc: Make '--manifest' more visible....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention the declarative approach and --manifest in the intro. And an anchor for --manifest. Explain why/how it can be used. Tweak wording. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-21services: xorg: Allow extra config text to be added verbatim....* gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-configuration-file): Add #:extra-config and honor it. * doc/guix.texi (X Window): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-21services: xorg: Make 'xorg-configuration-file' public....* gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-configuration-file): New procedure, with code formerly in 'xorg-start-command'. (xorg-start-command): Remove #:drivers and #:resolutions; add #:configuration-file; use it as well as 'xorg-configuration-file'. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-20Revert "doc: Suggest how to preserve /var and /root owner and permissions."...This reverts commit 8c3a5d7059a24e9c6d7bf14be296169cdcf06ad6, which is no longer needed due to commit b2a5fa594e66b9d929df11fc7a38e4b367a00a5e. Mark H Weaver
2015-05-20package: Add --manifest option....* guix/scripts/package.scm (show-help): Add help text. (%options): Add manifest option. (guix-package): Add manifest option handler. * doc/guix.texi ("Invoking guix package"): Document it. * tests/guix-package.sh: Add test. David Thompson
2015-05-20guix package: Add optional argument to --search-paths....* guix/scripts/package.scm (search-path-environment-variables): Add #:kind parameter. Pass it to 'environment-variable-definition'. (display-search-paths): Add #:kind parameter and pass it to 'search-path-environment-variables'. (%options): Add an optional parameter for "--search-paths". (guix-package)[process-query]: Handle it. * tests/guix-package-net.sh: Adjust existing test. * tests/guix-package.sh: Adjust existing tests and add new test. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-19doc: Add "package Reference" and "origin Reference" sections....* doc/guix.texi (Defining Packages): Link to "package Reference". Add menu. (package Reference, origin Reference): New subsections. Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-05-19guix gc: Add '--optimize'....* guix/scripts/gc.scm (show-help, %options): Add --optimize. (guix-gc): Handle it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-19build: Make sure $CXX supports C++11....* m4/guix.m4 (GUIX_CHECK_CXX11, GUIX_ASSERT_CXX11): New macros. * config-daemon.ac: Use 'AC_LANG([C++])' and 'GUIX_ASSERT_CXX11'.C * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Mention C++11 support. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-18doc: Re-generate detailed node listing....* doc/guix.texi (Top): Update detailed node listing. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-18install: Files in the tarball are all root-owned....Fixes a thinko introduced in 175ced4. * gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Use "root:0" as the owner and group. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Revert 175ced4. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-18install: Use the right user and group name for files in the binary tarball....Suggested by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00220.html>. * gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Pass --owner and --group to 'tar'. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Move group and account creation before extraction. Make "run the daemon" a separate step. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-18doc: Suggest the same build user and group names as on GuixSD....* doc/guix.texi (Build Environment Setup): Suggest the user and group names as used on GuixSD. (Binary Installation): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-17doc: Better suggestion for the /usr/local/bin/guix symlink....Suggested by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00220.html>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Use the longer 'guix' file name. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-17doc: Document 'ifconfig eno1 up' before running 'dhclient'....Reported by Scott McDonough <smcdonough1@gmail.com> in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20582>. * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Suggested setting the interface up before running 'dhclient'. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-17doc: Suggest how to preserve /var and /root owner and permissions....Reported by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Suggest --skip-old-files when extracting the archive. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-13doc: Increase package count....* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Increase package count. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-12publish: Add '--listen'....* guix/scripts/publish.scm (show-help, %options): Add --listen. (getaddrinfo*): New procedure. (%default-options): Add 'address'. (open-server-socket): Replace 'addr' and 'port' with 'address', a sockaddr. (guix-publish): Adjust accordingly. Augment "publishing" message with the actual address. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-12publish: Add '--user' option....* guix/scripts/publish.scm (show-help): Add --user. (%options): Likewise. (run-publish-server): Change 'port' parameter to 'socket'. Pass #:socket instead of #:addr and #:port to 'run-server'. Update caller accordingly. (open-server-socket, gather-user-privileges): New procedures. (guix-publish): Use them. Force %PRIVATE-KEY and %PUBLIC-KEY early on. Warn when running as root. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish): Document --user. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-12doc: Make 'guix publish' more visible....* doc/guix.texi (Substitutes): Add xref to "Invoking guix publish". (Invoking guix publish): Add xref to "Substitutes". Explain what Hydra is. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-12doc: "GSD" -> "GuixSD"....* doc/guix.texi: Replace "GSD" with "GuixSD". Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-12doc: Use @indicateurl where appropriate....* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation, Invoking guix-daemon, System Installation): Use @indicateurl instead of @code where appropriate. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-11doc: Document X.509 certificates....* doc/guix.texi (Using the Configuration System): Add xref to "X.509 Certificates". (X.509 Certificates): New section. * gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Use NSS-CERTS. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-10doc: Mention GNU Make as a requirement....* README (Requirements): Add GNU Make. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-10build: Require Guile >= 2.0.7....* configure.ac: Require guile-2.0 >= 2.0.7. * README: Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-09doc: Show both the "bare-bones" and the "desktop" configurations....* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Add xref to "Using the Configuration System" instead of including one here. (Using the Configuration System): Remove first example, and include os-config-bare-bones.texi instead. Include os-config-desktop.texi as a second example. * doc.am (OS_CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TEXI): New variable. (BUILT_SOURCES, EXTRA_DIST, MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Use it. (doc/os-config.texi): Remove. (doc/os-config-%.texi): New target. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-09install: Have several OS config templates under /etc/configuration....* gnu/system/install.scm (configuration-template-service): Remove 'local-template' and 'template'. Add 'search' and 'templates'. [activate]: Copy all of TEMPLATES to /etc/configuration. * doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Adjust file name accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-08doc: Document 'avahi-service'....* gnu/services/avahi.scm (avahi-service): Add URL in docstring. * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Document it. (Name Service Switch): Fix cross-reference. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-08doc: Document sessions and ~/.xsession for SLiM....* gnu/services/xorg.scm (slim-service): Document session types and ~/.xsession. * doc/guix.texi (X Window): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-08services: Add '%desktop-services'....* gnu/services/desktop.scm (%desktop-services): New variable. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-08nss: Add '%mdns-host-lookup-nss'....* gnu/system/nss.scm (%mdns-host-lookup-nss): New variable. * doc/guix.texi (Name Service Switch): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-07gnu: Add postgresql-service....* gnu/services/databases.scm: New file. * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it. * doc/guix.texi ("Database Services"): New subsubsection. David Thompson
2015-05-06profiles: Generate an 'etc/profile' file....Suggested by 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255>. * guix/build/profiles.scm (abstract-profile, write-environment-variable-definition): New procedures. (build-profile): Add #:search-paths parameter. Create OUTPUT/etc/profile. * guix/profiles.scm (profile-derivation)[builder]: Add 'search-paths' variable and pass it to 'build-profile'. Adjust #:modules argument. * tests/profiles.scm ("etc/profile"): New test. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention etc/profile. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-05services: Group desktop services in (gnu services desktop)....* gnu/services/colord.scm, gnu/services/dbus.scm, gnu/services/upower.scm: Remove. * gnu/services/desktop.scm: New file, with contents taken from the above files. * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): New section. (Various Services): Move colord-service and upower-service from here to "Desktop Services". Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-04doc: Fix dangling references in the 'sh-symlink' monad example....Reported by Christopher A. Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>. * doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Reintroduce 'mlet' in 'sh-symlink' example. Move the simplified version below. Explain that the 'store' parameter is threaded. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-04doc: Suggest 'groupadd --system'....* doc/guix.texi (Build Environment Setup): Use 'groupadd --system'. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-04doc: Clarify installation from the binary tarball....* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Specifically refer to group/account creation, and add an item for substitutes. Mention verifiability. Ludovic Courtès
2015-05-04doc: Replace reference to profile.sh with sh-symlink...* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Replace reference to "profile.sh", which is not defined until the next node, with "sh-symlink", which is defined immediately above Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Christopher Allan Webber
2015-05-02guix: build: Add transitive source building....* guix/scripts/build.scm (%options, options->derivations): Add --sources option. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix build): Document --sources option. * tests/guix-build.sh: Add tests. Eric Bavier
2015-05-01services: Add console-keymap service....* gnu/services/base.scm (console-keymap-service): New procedure. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document it. Co-authored-by: 宋文武 <iyzsong@gmail.com> Alex Kost
2015-05-01derivations: Add #:leaked-env-vars parameter....Suggested by Joshua Randall <jcrandall@alum.mit.edu> in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20402>. * guix/derivations.scm (derivation): Add #:leaked-env-vars parameter. [user+system-env-vars]: Honor it. * guix/gexp.scm (gexp->derivation): Add #:leaked-env-vars and pass it to 'raw-derivation'. * doc/guix.texi (Derivations, G-Expressions): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-20system: Make /gnu/store a read-only bind mount by default....* gnu/system/file-systems.scm (%immutable-store): New variable. (%base-file-systems): Add it. * doc/guix.texi (File Systems): Document it. Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-19guix package: -A and -s take supported systems into account....* guix/scripts/package.scm (guix-package)[process-query] <list-available>: Restrict results to packages matching 'supported-package?". * guix/ui.scm (package->recutils): Print "systems:". * tests/guix-package.sh: Add tests. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Adjust description of '--list-available' accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-18doc: Warn earlier about the risk of overwriting with the binary install....Suggested by Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Move warning about overwriting higher up. Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-18packages: Allow package lookups with version prefixes....* gnu/packages.scm (find-packages-by-name): Sort MATCHING according to 'version>?'. Use 'string-prefix?' instead of 'string=?' to compare against VERSION. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Add example and explanation. Ludovic Courtès
2015-04-17Merge branch 'master' into core-updates...Conflicts: gnu-system.am gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm Mark H Weaver
2015-04-16refresh: Allow users to refer to specific package versions....* guix/scripts/refresh.scm (guix-refresh): Use 'specification->package' instead of 'find-packages-by-name'. This allows users to specify things like "qt-4.8.6". * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Add an example. Ludovic Courtès