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#+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes
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#+STARTUP: content hidestars
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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2014-04-07 23:36:26 +02:00
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Copyright © 2013, 2014 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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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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2014-07-21 16:01:51 +02:00
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* Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6)
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** Package management
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2014-07-25 00:44:43 +02:00
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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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2014-07-21 16:01:51 +02:00
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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
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2014-07-21 16:01:51 +02:00
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** Native language support
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*** New translations: de (German), and hu (Hungarian)
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*** Updated translations: eo, pt_BR, sr, vi
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*** Package descriptions moved from the ‘guix’ text domain to ‘guix-packages’
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** Bugs fixed
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*** Downloads are now faster (<http://bugs.gnu.org/15368>)
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*** ‘guix authenticate’ properly writes signatures to stdout
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(<http://bugs.gnu.org/17312>)
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*** Progress report of downloads is now properly displayed
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*** Error reporting of pk-crypto errors has been improved
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*** The 'patches' field now works for origins with no extension
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*** Synchronization and GC issues fixed in the offload hook
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*** (guix ftp-client) emits USER commands suitable for all servers
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2014-04-07 23:36:26 +02:00
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* Changes in 0.6 (since 0.5)
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** Package management
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*** Default store directory changed to /gnu/store
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Although it is still possible to configure Guix to use the old store
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directory, we recommend that you start with a fresh install to /gnu/store.
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*** Substitutes from hydra.gnu.org must now be signed and authorized
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*** Support for offloading builds to other Guix machines over SSH
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*** New ‘guix archive’ command
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*** New ‘guix system’ command; it can currently build VM images
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*** ‘guix package’ accepts several arguments after -i, -r, and -u
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*** Updating a profile with ‘guix package’ is now noticeably faster
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*** ‘guix build’ can override a package’s source with the new ‘--with-source’
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*** ‘guix build’ has a new ‘--no-build-hook’ option
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*** ‘guix’ commands that build packages have a common set of options
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*** ‘guix hash’ has a new ‘--recursive’ option
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*** Daemon no longer bind-mounts the host’s /dev (improves reproducibility)
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New (guix pk-crypto) and (guix pki) modules for public key cryptography
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*** New #:local-build? parameter for derivations that shouldn’t be offloaded
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*** (gnu system vm) has procedures to build VMs that share the host’s store
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*** New ‘text-file*’ procedure in (guix monads)
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*** System service definitions are now provided by the (guix services) modules
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*** New X and SLiM services in (gnu services xorg)
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*** New (guix git-download) and (guix svn-download) for git/svn checkouts
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** GNU distribution
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2014-04-09 14:37:01 +02:00
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*** 91 new packages
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a2ps, asciidoc, aspell-dict-en, aspell-dict-eo, aspell-dict-es,
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aspell-dict-fr, aumix, bitlbee, bogofilter, boost, calcurse, clusterssh,
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corkscrew, cursynth, docbook-xml, docbook-xsl, elfutils, enscript, fftwf,
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fltk, fuse, gcc-toolchain, giflib, glade, gmime, gnome-desktop, gnubg, gnubik,
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gnumach-headers, gnunet, gnuplot, gnurl, gphoto2, gtkglext, guile-json,
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guile-reader-for-guile_2.0.11, gxmessage, hdf5, hurd-headers, inkscape, iotop,
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isc-dhcp, iso-codes, jnettop, libatomic-ops, libexif, libgphoto2, libmpcdec,
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libmpdclient, libotr, libpcap, libpeas, libpipeline, libtirpc, libwebsockets,
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ltrace, luajit, lynx, man-db, mc, mig, miniupnpc, moe, mpc123, mpd, ncdc,
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ncdu, ncmpc, neon, neon, octave, opus, paperkey, patchutils, perl-tk,
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perl-x11-protocol, pinentry, python2-element-tree, python2-pybugz, quilt,
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source-highlight, stalonetray, trueprint, ttf-dejavu, unionfs-fuse,
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unionfs-fuse-static, uucp, vera, windowmaker, xapian, xterm
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*** 90 package updates
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apl-1.3, autoconf-2.68, automake-1.14.1, bash-4.3, bash-light-4.3,
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bigloo-4.1a, binutils-2.24, binutils-static-stripped-tarball-2.24,
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coreutils-8.22, curl-7.35.0, ed-1.10, ffmpeg-2.1.4, file-5.18, freeipmi-1.4.1,
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gcc-4.8.2, gcc-4.8.2, gdb-7.7, gdbm-1.11, gettext-0.18.3.2, glib-2.39.1,
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glibc-2.19, glibc-stripped-tarball-2.19, global-6.2.12, glpk-4.54,
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gnu-pw-mgr-1.2, gnupg-1.4.16, gnutls-3.2.12, gp2c-0.0.8pl1, grep-2.18,
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gst-plugins-base-0.10.36, gstreamer-1.0.10, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2,
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guile-2.0.11, guile-ssh-0.6.0, guile-static-stripped-tarball-2.0.11,
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guile-wm-1.0, guile-xcb-1.3, guix-0.5, help2man-1.45.1, icu4c-52.1,
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imagemagick-6.8.8-10, inetutils-1.9.2, lapack-3.5.0, libcdio-0.92,
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libdrm-2.4.46, libextractor-1.3, libgc-7.2e, libgc-7.4.0, libgcrypt-1.6.1,
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libjpeg-9, libmicrohttpd-0.9.34, libssh-0.6.3, libtasn1-3.4, lightning-2.0.3,
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linux-libre-3.13.7, mpc-1.0.2, mutt-1.5.23, net-base-5.2, ocrad-0.23,
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openssh-6.6p1, openssl-1.0.1g, parallel-20140322, pari-gp-2.7.0, pspp-0.8.2,
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pulseaudio-5.0, python-2.7.6, python-3.3.5, python-wrapper-3.3.5,
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python2-pysqlite-2.6.3a, qemu-1.7.1, qemu-headless-1.7.1,
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qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares-1.7.1, qt-4.8.5, qt-5.2.0, readline-6.3,
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recutils-1.7, slim-1.3.6, sqlite-3.8.4.3, subversion-1.7.14, texinfo-4.13a,
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tor-0.2.4.21, tzdata-2014a, units-2.11, valgrind-3.9.0, vim-7.4, wget-1.15,
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xnee-3.18, xorriso-1.3.6.pl01, zile-2.4.11
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2014-04-07 23:36:26 +02:00
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*** New ‘gcc-toolchain’ meta-package, makes it easy to install a GCC tool chain
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*** libc’s Info manual is now installed
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*** Binutils is built with --enable-deterministic-archives
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*** Packages that populated man/man* now populate share/man/man*
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*** Many other packaging improvements
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** Bugs fixed
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*** ‘guix pull’ consumes less memory, compiles in parallel
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*** ‘guix package --list-*’ gracefully handles EPIPE when used in a pipeline
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*** ‘guix package’ handles collisions between a symlink and a directory
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/17083)
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*** HTTP downloads provide a ‘User-Agent’ field (http://bugs.gnu.org/16703)
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*** ‘guix package’ no longer shows misleading installed package number
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/16484)
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*** Manual suggests ‘useradd --system’ (http://bugs.gnu.org/16289)
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*** Python is built with ctypes support (http://bugs.gnu.org/16569)
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*** HTTP/TLS connection not terminated properly (http://bugs.gnu.org/14884)
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*** Gracefully handle poorly behaved HTTP servers (http://bugs.gnu.org/15733)
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2013-12-10 21:53:59 +01:00
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* Changes in 0.5 (since 0.4)
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** Package management
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*** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository
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In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync
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with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package
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meta-data.
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** Programming interfaces
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*** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’
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The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and
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‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running
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‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual.
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*** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store
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See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been
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rewritten to use this monadic interface.
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*** New (guix profiles) module
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It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’
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command.
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*** New (gnu system) module
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This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration,
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and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.)
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See “System Configuration” in the manual.
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This is work in progress. Send feedback to guix-devel@gnu.org!
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*** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters
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Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters.
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See “Derivations” in the manual.
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** GNU distribution
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*** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’)
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2013-12-10 22:14:23 +01:00
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Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several
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Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core
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packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual.
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Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will
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build from source on this platform.
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2013-12-11 13:06:19 +01:00
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*** 110 new packages
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acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen,
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automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg,
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fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk,
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gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm,
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gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat,
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icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring,
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libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh,
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libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel,
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pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list,
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perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies,
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perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate,
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perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http,
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perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple,
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phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless,
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qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf,
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sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig,
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xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm
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*** 47 package updates
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atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2,
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gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2,
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gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3,
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gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16,
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gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2,
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harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46,
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libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2,
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linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5,
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pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1,
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qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0,
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tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2
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2013-12-10 21:53:59 +01:00
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*** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3)
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** Native language support
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*** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation
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*** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation
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*** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation
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** Bugs fixed
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2013-12-10 22:14:23 +01:00
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*** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly
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2013-12-10 21:53:59 +01:00
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Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’
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calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 .
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*** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output
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(http://bugs.gnu.org/15756)
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2013-12-11 13:06:19 +01:00
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*** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022
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(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html)
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2013-12-10 21:53:59 +01:00
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*** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC
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2013-12-11 13:06:19 +01:00
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*** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283)
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2013-12-10 21:53:59 +01:00
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*** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640)
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2013-09-25 17:27:10 +02:00
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* Changes in 0.4 (since 0.3)
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** Package management
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*** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options
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The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to
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deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
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*** New ‘guix-register’ program
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This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by
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copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool.
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** Programming interfaces
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*** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages
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The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a
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package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that
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runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar.
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*** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter
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This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build
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tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files.
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This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies
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to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image.
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*** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image
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The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’
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procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new
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‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init
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system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed
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packages, and where Guix can be used.
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New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the
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various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides
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support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux
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PAM configuration; and so on.
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*** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API
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‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a
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<derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is
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a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv
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file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details.
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** GNU distribution
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2013-09-27 01:50:59 +02:00
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*** 60 new packages
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apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail,
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freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils,
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gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop,
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itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt,
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net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz,
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python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel,
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python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite,
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python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd,
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qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units,
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valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm
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*** 27 package updates
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bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4,
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gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18,
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gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21,
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imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0,
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linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python
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3.3.2, texlive 2013
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2013-09-25 17:27:10 +02:00
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*** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient
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Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those
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based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional
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fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up.
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*** More GUI applications
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The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+
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applications have been added (see above.)
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*** Packaging guidelines
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The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual
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under “GNU Distribution”.
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*** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2
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Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support
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it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules”
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section of the manual for details.
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** Internationalization
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Updated translations: eo.
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** Bugs fixed
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2013-09-27 01:50:59 +02:00
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*** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives
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2013-09-25 17:27:10 +02:00
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*** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output
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2013-09-27 01:50:59 +02:00
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*** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64
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2013-09-25 17:27:10 +02:00
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*** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392)
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2013-09-27 08:44:55 +02:00
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*** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187)
|
2013-09-27 01:50:59 +02:00
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*** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194)
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2013-01-20 22:51:34 +01:00
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2013-05-20 18:30:55 +02:00
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* Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2)
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** Package management
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2013-06-02 00:13:00 +02:00
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*** Cross-compilation support
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Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with
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the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level,
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the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages
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of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for
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details.
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2013-05-20 18:30:55 +02:00
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*** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
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See the manual for details.
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2013-06-02 00:13:00 +02:00
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*** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package”
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This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails
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to download a substitute.
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2013-06-13 22:15:41 +02:00
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*** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc”
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See the manual for details.
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2013-07-16 23:46:01 +02:00
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*** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh”
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See the manual for details.
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2013-07-02 22:58:50 +02:00
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** Programming interfaces
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2013-07-16 23:46:01 +02:00
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*** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations)
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See the manual for details.
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*** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter
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This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It
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allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know
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whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is.
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*** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures
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This improves performance of SHA256 computations.
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2013-07-16 23:46:01 +02:00
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** GNU distribution
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*** 33 new packages
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alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd,
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gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2,
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iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket,
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rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore
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*** 25 package updates
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automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3,
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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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2013-05-20 18:30:55 +02:00
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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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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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2013-06-02 00:13:00 +02:00
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*** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity
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2013-06-14 17:05:32 +02:00
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*** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations
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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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2013-07-16 23:46:01 +02:00
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*** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’
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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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2013-07-17 15:33:48 +02:00
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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
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< 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect
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command-line argument processing in some cases.
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2013-01-20 22:51:34 +01:00
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* Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1)
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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** Package management
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*** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program
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Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so
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on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program
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setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”.
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2013-05-08 16:08:25 +02:00
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*** New “guix package --upgrade” option
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As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages
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2013-05-10 23:05:00 +02:00
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installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp.
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See “Invoking guix package” in the manual.
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2013-05-08 16:08:25 +02:00
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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*** New “guix package --search” option
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Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns
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the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the
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manual, for details.
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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*** New “guix pull” command
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The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management
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modules and the distribution. See the manual for details.
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*** New binary substituter
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The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently
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downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The
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distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there.
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See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of
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available binary packages.
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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*** New “guix refresh” command
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The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the
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distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software.
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*** New “guix hash” command
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Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for
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details.
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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*** Nix daemon code updated
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated
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to current Nix ‘master’.
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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** Programming interfaces
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS
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It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS.
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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*** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields
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Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables
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that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the
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package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its
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‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc.
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These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that
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uses one of these.
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*** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type
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The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of
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(%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent
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tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme.
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*** New build systems
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The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have
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been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and
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CMake packages.
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2013-05-11 22:50:01 +02:00
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*** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more
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The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux
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initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to
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evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that
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mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL:
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(expression->initrd
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'(begin
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(mkdir "/proc")
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(mount "none" "/proc" "proc")
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((@ (system repl repl) start-repl))))
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More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file.
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Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the
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(gnu system vm) module. For instance, the
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‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in
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a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile.
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2013-04-27 17:10:41 +02:00
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** GNU distribution
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Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the
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highlights.
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*** Major updates
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GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9,
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Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1.
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*** Noteworthy new packages
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2013-05-12 16:35:08 +02:00
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TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo,
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CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba.
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