GNU Guix 0.7 released

From: Ludovic Courtès Subject: GNU Guix 0.7 released Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:12:02 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.7, representing 660 commits by 13 people over 4 months. This release comes with the first image allowing the GNU operating system to be installed from a USB stick. • About GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU system distribution. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. It also offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme programming interfaces. At this stage the GNU system can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.7.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.7.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-usb-install-0.7.x86_64.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-usb-install-0.7.x86_64.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-usb-install-0.7.i686.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-usb-install-0.7.i686.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA1 checksums: 99413e79bb212c51e6da869496bba42e132cb7e2 guix-0.7.tar.gz 8704d8d6362832181916eac33f62073b54f5ca14 gnu-usb-install-0.7.x86_64.xz a8b19583732d8f2def1213bc06a18bb6065826a2 gnu-usb-install-0.7.i686.xz [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the .sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this: gpg --verify guix-0.7.tar.gz.sig If that command fails because you don't have the required public key, then run this command to import it: gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys EA52ECF4 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.14.1 Makeinfo 5.2 To install the complete GNU operating system, please see “System Installation” in the manual. • Changes since version 0.6 (excerpt from the NEWS file) * Changes in 0.7 (since 0.6) ** Package management *** Binaries for mips64el-linux now available from hydra.gnu.org These come in addition to the x86_64-linux and i686-linux binaries already provided, thanks to our generous donor and friendly admins. See “Substitutes” in the manual. *** ‘guix package’ has a new ‘--show’ option *** ‘guix refresh’ has a new ‘--list-dependent’ option ** Programming interfaces *** New (guix gexp) module, which implements “G-expressions” G-expressions are a new mechanism to embed build-side code in host-side code. See “G-Expressions” in the manual. *** (gnu system) and related modules now use G-expressions This greatly simplifies code, and guarantees that build code carries references to the packages or derivations it uses. *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ is deprecated in favor of G-expressions *** The (gnu system) module has been largely augmented and factorized *** New (guix build vm) module, support for virtual machine images *** New (guix build activation) module, for “system activation” *** New (guix build syscalls) module *** New (guix build install) and module for whole system installation *** New (gnu system install) module, for the installation system *** New (gnu system file-systems) module, for ‘file-system’ declarations *** New (gnu) module, which aggregates common (gnu …) modules *** ‘service’ records now have an optional ‘activate’ field This allows services to specify code to run at system activation time. ** GNU distribution *** An image to install the GNU system from a USB stick is provided This is the first time an installation image is provided. See “System Installation” in the manual for details. This is work in progress as noted in “Limitations”. Your feedback and help are welcome! *** Support for more parameters in ‘operating-system’ declarations Operating system declarations can now provide a list of file systems, a list of setuid programs, bootloader options, and more. See “System Configuration” in the manual. *** ‘guix system’ supports more actions Newly supported actions are ‘init’, ‘build’, ‘reconfigure’, and ‘disk-image’. See “Invoking guix system” in the manual. *** User accounts and groups are created at system activation time *** Virtual machine support uses para-virtualized devices *** GCC package now has an additional ‘lib’ output, for run-time support libs *** GLib package now has a separate “bin” output (<http://bugs.gnu.org/17853>) *** 134 new packages abbaye, aegis, attica, babl, barcode, behave, btar, busybox, ccache, ccrtp, chess, clucene, cmatrix, commoncpp, conkeror, cook, cssc, datamash, diffstat, doxygen, dropbear, dtach, duplicity, e2fsck-static, exosip, fftw-openmpi, fish, gconf, gegl, gimp, gmsh, gnome-mime-data, gnome-vfs, gnumeric, goffice, gsegrafix, guile-opengl, guile-static-stripped, hdup, hwloc, inotify-tools, jrnl, kbd, kmod, lftp, libarchive, libart-lgpl, libbonobo, libbonoboui, libcroco, libdbusmenu-qt, libftdi, libglade, libgnome, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgnomeui, libgsf, libidl, libmcrypt, libmhash, librsvg, librsync, libsodium, libuv, libvpx, links, lzop, man-pages, maxima, mcrypt, mosh, mpg123, mplayer, mu, ncmpcpp, node, notmuch, numactl, offlineimap, openmpi, orbit2, osip, pangox-compat, perl-io-tty, petsc, petsc-complex, petsc-complex-openmpi, petsc-openmpi, pingus, podofo, protobuf, pt-scotch, python-enum34, python-keyring, python-lockfile, python-mock, python-parse, python-parse-type, python-parsedatetime, python-pycrypto, python-six, python-tzlocal, python2-lockfile, python2-mock, qjson, qrencode, rasqal, rdiff-backup, rdup, redland, rottlog, scotch, sipwitch, sshfs-fuse, strigi, sudo, superlu, superlu-dist, talkfilters, talloc, tcpdump, tinyproxy, transmission, ucommon, udev, vlc, vtk, wakelan, wireless-tools, wpa-supplicant, xboard, youtube-dl *** 87 package updates bitlbee-3.2.2, cursynth-1.5, ddrescue-1.18.1, dfc-3.0.4, dmd-0.2, docbook-xml-4.3, docbook-xml-4.4, docbook-xsl-1.78.1, dvdisaster-0.72.6, ffmpeg-2.3, fftw-3.3.4, fftwf-3.3.4, flac-1.3.0, gawk-4.1.1, gcc-4.7.4, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.8.3, gcc-4.9.1, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-4.8.3, gcc-objc++-4.8.3, gcc-objc-4.8.3, gcc-stripped-tarball-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.8.3, gcc-toolchain-4.9.1, gccgo-4.8.3, gdb-7.7.1, gettext-0.19.2, gfortran-4.8.3, glib-2.40.0, global-6.3, gmp-6.0.0a, gnupg-1.4.18, gnupg-2.0.25, gnutls-3.2.15, gp2c-0.0.9pl1, grep-2.20, gst-plugins-base-1.0.10, gstreamer-0.10.36, gtk+-3.10.1, gtkmm-2.24.2, guile-2.0.11, guile-2.0.11, guix-0.6, guix-0.6.0ae8c15, htop-1.0.3, icu4c-53.1, imagemagick-6.8.9-0, json-c-0.12, libdrm-2.4.33, libgc-7.2e, libgcrypt-1.5.3, libgpg-error-1.13, libjpeg-8d, libmicrohttpd-0.9.37, libogg-1.3.2, libotr-4.0.0, libtasn1-3.6, libvorbis-1.3.4, lightning-2.0.4, linux-libre-3.15.6, lua-5.1.5, lua-5.2.3, mcron-1.0.8, moe-1.6, nano-2.3.6, neon-0.29.6, nettle-3.0, openssl-1.0.1h, parallel-20140722, pari-gp-2.7.1, pspp-0.8.3, python-2.7.6, python-dateutil-2.2, python2-dateutil-2.2, qemu-2.0.0, qemu-headless-2.0.0, qt-4.8.6, qt-5.2.1, readline-6.2, screen-4.2.1, soprano-2.9.4, texinfo-5.2, texlive-2014, tor-0.2.4.22, 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 Please report bugs to address@hidden Join address@hidden and #guix on Freenode for discussions. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: 3 Alírio Eyng 49 Andreas Enge 2 Cyril Roelandt 4 Cyrill Schenkel 14 David Thompson 58 Eric Bavier 12 Jason Self 29 John Darrington 474 Ludovic Courtès 2 Manolis Ragkousis 11 Mark H Weaver 1 Nikita Karetnikov 1 Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.

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