GNU Guix 0.5 released

From: Ludovic Courtès Subject: GNU Guix 0.5 released Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:49:14 +0100 User-agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

We are pleased to announce release of GNU Guix version 0.5, representing 395 commits by 11 people over 2 months. This release comes with an updated QEMU virtual machine image that shows 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 and dmd. • 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, x86_64, or mips64el 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 a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.5.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.5.tar.gz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-system-demo-0.5.qcow2.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-system-demo-0.5.qcow2.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 34ec4229899df46c5eb3b7c3980ebd75 guix-0.5.tar.gz 62cfda802011d43ec0427e9269939938f69c9be8 guix-0.5.tar.gz 745ae52a24b231f74f7efb7caa79705f gnu-system-demo-0.5.qcow2.xz e950a0deb590b0386b937f86b25b211fc4fd8c29 gnu-system-demo-0.5.qcow2.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-0.5.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 5.2 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-0.5.qcow2 This enables networking support, which is useful when using Guix inside of it. • Changes since version 0.4 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** Package management *** GNU package descriptions synchronized with the ‘gnumaint’ repository In addition to synopses, descriptions of GNU packages are now kept in sync with the ‘gnumaint’ repository, which is the canonical place for GNU package meta-data. ** Programming interfaces *** Patches are now listed as part of ‘origin’ The ‘origin’ form supports two new fields: ‘patches’ (list of patches), and ‘snippet’ (code snippet to modify the source.) These are applied when running ‘guix build --source’. See “Defining Packages” in the manual. *** New (guix monads) monadic interface to operate on the store See “The Store Monad” in the manual. The (gnu system …) modules have been rewritten to use this monadic interface. *** New (guix profiles) module It provides an API for dealing with profiles, as with the ‘guix package’ command. *** New (gnu system) module This module provides a generic way to describe the system’s configuration, and to instantiate it, regardless of the final medium (QEMU image, etc.) See “System Configuration” in the manual. This is work in progress. Send feedback to address@hidden *** ‘build-expression->derivation’ uses more parameters Some positional parameters have been changed to keyword parameters. See “Derivations” in the manual. ** GNU distribution *** New port to the Loongson MIPS64 processors, n32 ABI (‘mips64el-linux’) Bootstrap binaries have been built for that architecture, and several Loongson-specific patches not yet available upstream have been applied to core packages. See “GNU Distribution” and “Porting” in the manual. Pre-built binaries are not yet available via hydra.gnu.org, so Guix will build from source on this platform. *** 110 new packages acct, alive, alsa-utils, apl, at-spi2-atk, at-spi2-core, atkmm, autogen, automoc4, brasero, bridge-utils, cairomm, catkin, complexity, evince, ffmpeg, fftw, ftgl, gcc-objc, gcc-objc++, gccgo, gcl, gfortran, glibmm, glpk, gnome-icon-theme, gnu-pw-mgr, gp2c, gpgme, gsettings-desktop-schemas, gtkmm, gtksourceview, guile-ssh, guile-wm, gvpe, hicolor-icon-theme, httpd, icecat, icon-naming-utils, json-c, lapack, libcanberra, libcap, libgnome-keyring, libmikmod, libnl, libnotify, libsamplerate, libsigc++, libsndfile, libssh, libtheora, libxkbcommon, mercurial, mtools, netcat, pangomm, parallel, pavucontrol, pciutils, pem, perl-encode-locale, perl-file-list, perl-file-listing, perl-html-parser, perl-html-tagset, perl-http-cookies, perl-http-daemon, perl-http-date, perl-http-message, perl-http-negotiate, perl-io-html, perl-libwww, perl-libxml, perl-lwp-mediatypes, perl-net-http, perl-uri, perl-www-robotrules, perl-xml-dom, perl-xml-regexp, perl-xml-simple, phonon, powertop, pulseaudio, python2-dogtail, python2-empy, qemu-headless, qt, qt, raptor2, scons, sdl, sdl-gfx, sdl-image, sdl-mixer, sdl-net, sdl-ttf, sdl2, serveez, shared-mime-info, sharutils, skribilo, slim, soprano, swig, xcb-util, xcb-util-image, xcb-util-keysyms, xcb-util-renderutil, xcb-util-wm *** 47 package updates atk 2.10.0, bison 3.0.2, cmake 2.8.12, dmd 0.1, freeipmi 1.3.3, gcc 4.8.2, gcc 4.8.2, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 4.8.2, gcc-stripped-tarball 4.8.2, gdb 7.6.2, gettext 0.18.3.1, glib 2.38.0, global 6.2.9, gmp 5.1.3, gnupg 2.0.22, gobject-introspection 1.38.0, grep 2.15, gsl 1.16, gtk+ 2.24.21, gtk+ 3.10.1, guile 2.0.9, guile 2.0.9, guile-xcb 1.2, harfbuzz 0.9.22, hello 2.9, iproute2 3.12.0, libdrm 2.4.46, libextractor 1.2, libjpeg 9, libmicrohttpd 0.9.32, lightning 2.0.2, linux-libre 3.12, lzip 1.15, make 4.0, mit-krb5 1.11.3, pari-gp 2.5.5, pixman 0.32.4, python 3.3.2, qemu 1.6.1, qemu-with-multiple-smb-shares 1.6.1, rcs 5.9.2, recutils 1.6, rsync 3.1.0, tar 1.27.1, texinfo 5.2, units 2.02, xorriso 1.3.2 *** Packages are now built with GCC 4.8.2 by default (was 4.7.3) ** Native language support *** New ‘sr’ (Serbian) translation *** New ‘vi’ (Vietnamese) translation *** Updated ‘pt_BR’ (Brazilian Portuguese) translation ** Bugs fixed *** ‘guix pull’ compiles Guix deterministically and correctly Previously, the build environment was not cleared in between ‘compile-file’ calls, leading to build errors due to Guile bug http://bugs.gnu.org/15602 . *** ‘guix package’ allows removal of a specific package output (http://bugs.gnu.org/15756) *** ‘guix-daemon’ always sets umask to 022 (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-07/msg00033.html) *** Files referenced by environment variables are protected from GC *** Yet unbuilt packages get correctly installed (http://bugs.gnu.org/15283) *** ‘bootstrap-graph.{png,eps,pdf}’ built in srcdir (http://bugs.gnu.org/15640) Please report bugs to address@hidden Join address@hidden and #guix on Freenode for discussions. Thanks to everyone who’s helped over the last two months! See the ‘AUTHORS’ and ‘THANKS’ files for the list of people. Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.

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