GNU Guix 0.4 released

From: Ludovic Courtès Subject: GNU Guix 0.4 released Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 16:17:42 +0200 User-agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

We are pleased to celebrate GNU’s 30th anniversary with the release of GNU Guix version 0.4, representing 300 commits by 5 people over 2 months. This release comes with a QEMU virtual machine image that demonstrates preliminary work toward building a stand-alone GNU system with Guix. The image uses the GNU Linux-Libre kernel and the GNU dmd init system. It is console-only, and may be used primarily to try out Guix. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme programming interfaces. At this stage Guix can be used on top of an i686 or x86_64 GNU/Linux system, or in a virtual machine. Future versions will stand alone. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and QEMU virtual machine image, along with GPG detached signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.4.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.4.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-system-demo-0.4.img.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-system-demo-0.4.img.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 263c0b05ac3978c98eab46ce1cd197bb guix-0.4.tar.gz cbe4740523d5a9a4e11bac031ea4e1c4145f6b11 guix-0.4.tar.gz d48c22847ea9d7f3fb6b268ebb3aa020 gnu-system-demo-0.4.img.gz 23472f17d94fc8e7f18fce28b6736668aa85859c gnu-system-demo-0.4.img.gz [*] 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-0.4.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 Makeinfo 5.1 Guix users can upgrade by running “guix pull”. To use the virtual machine image, run QEMU like this: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 256 -net nic,model=e1000 -net user \ gnu-system-demo-0.4.img This enables networking support, which is useful when using Guix inside of it. • Changes since version 0.3 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** Package management *** New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options The ‘guix package’ command has these two new options, which make it easier to deal with a profile’s generation. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. *** New ‘guix-register’ program This program allows the meta-data of a new store to be initialized, by copying info from an existing store. It is mostly an internal tool. ** Programming interfaces *** New API to bootstrap Autotools-based packages The (guix build-system gnu) has a new ‘dist-package’ procedure that takes a package object and source directory, and returns a new package object that runs ‘./bootstrap && make dist’ or anything similar. *** ‘derivation’ and related procedures have a #:references-graphs parameter This parameter instructs the build daemon to populate the derivation’s build tree with files containing the list of references of the given store files. This is useful to write code that copies a packages and all its dependencies to another storage device, such as a QEMU disk image. *** Extended API to build a GNU system virtual machine image The (gnu system vm) module has been augmented in many ways: the ‘qemu-image’ procedure can now populate and initialize the image’s store; the new ‘system-qemu-image’ procedure returns a QEMU image that runs dmd as its init system, has ‘login’ running on several consoles, has a set of installed packages, and where Guix can be used. New (gnu system …) modules have been added to handle the configuration of the various parts of a GNU/Linux system. For instance, (gnu system dmd) provides support for instantiating dmd services; (gnu system linux) helps with Linux PAM configuration; and so on. *** <derivation> objects supersede .drv file names in the API ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a <derivation> and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, which is a <derivation> object. The <derivation> object embeds the corresponding .drv file name. See “Derivations” in the manual for details. ** GNU distribution *** 60 new packages apr, apr-util, cdparanoia, dbus-glib, dfc, dmd, dvdisaster, exiv2, fetchmail, freefont-ttf, freeglut, geeqie, git, gkrellm, glu, gnome-doc-utils, gst-plugins-base, gstreamer, guile-cairo, guile-lib, guile-xcb, guix, htop, itstool, lame, libextractor, libmicrohttpd, lightning, lzip, mingetty, mutt, net-base, net-tools, ocrad, pspp, python-babel, python-dateutil, python-pytz, python-setuptools, python-simplejson, python-wrapper, python2-babel, python2-dateutil, python2-mechanize, python2-pyicu, python2-pysqlite, python2-pytz, python2-setuptools, python2-simplejson, qemu-system-initrd, qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares, ripperx, shadow, ttf-bitstream-vera, units, valgrind, xmlto, xnee, yasm *** 27 package updates bigloo 4.0b, cairo 1.12.16, ddrescue 1.17, fontconfig 2.10.93, fplll 4.0.4, gcc 4.7.3, gcc 4.7.3, glibc 2.18, glibc 2.18, glibc-stripped-tarball 2.18, gnupg 2.0.21, gnutls 3.2.4, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, harfbuzz 0.9.21, imagemagick 6.8.6-9, libdrm 2.4.46, libgcrypt 1.5.3, libjpeg 9, libksba 1.3.0, linux-libre 3.11, m4 1.4.17, mpfrcx 0.4.2, pari-gp 2.5.4, python 2.7.5, python 3.3.2, texlive 2013 *** Fontconfig font search path made more convenient Fontconfig, the library used by many graphical applications, such as those based on GTK+, now knows where to find the default set of fonts. Additional fonts installed in the user profile are automatically picked up. *** More GUI applications The ‘emacs’ and ‘racket’ packages are now linked against GTK+. New GTK+ applications have been added (see above.) *** Packaging guidelines The documentation of packaging guidelines has been augmented. See the manual under “GNU Distribution”. *** Support for Python 3 along with Python 2 Python 3 has been added to the distribution, and Python packages that support it are now built for both Python 2 and Python 3. See the “Python Modules” section of the manual for details. ** Internationalization Updated translations: eo. ** Bugs fixed *** Workarounds for Guile 2.0.5 now work on Debian derivatives *** The dependency graph image has correct size in PDF output *** 'ldd' now works correctly on x86_64 *** Xorg server test suite no longer fails (http://bugs.gnu.org/15392) *** module-init-tools now builds (http://bugs.gnu.org/15182, http://bugs.gnu.org/15187) *** Hop 2.4 builds with newer Bigloo (http://bugs.gnu.org/15194) Please report bugs to address@hidden Join address@hidden for discussions. Join the #guix channel of the Freenode IRC network on Sep. 28 and 29 for a celebration hackathon. Happy birthday, GNU! Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.

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