From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Sassmannshausen Subject: Re: GNU Guix 0.4 released Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 23:46:45 +0200 Message-ID: <1380404805.10171.7.camel@Nokia-N900> References: <874n961h89.fsf@inria.fr> Reply-To: Alex Sassmannshausen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQ2Lk-00030x-SC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:46:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQ2Lg-0007yF-0i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:46:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874n961h89.fsf@inria.fr> Content-ID: <1380404804.10171.6.camel@Nokia-N900> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Court=E8?= , guix-devel@gnu.org Fantastic, congratulations to all involved and kudos to ludo, andreas and nikita in particular for you commitment! Best wishes, Alex On Fri Sep 27 16:17:42 2013 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > 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. > >    *** objects supersede .drv file names in the API > >    ‘derivation’ and similar procedures no longer return two values (a >    and a .drv file name); they now return a single value, > which is  a object.  The 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 bug-guix@gnu.org. > Join guix-devel@gnu.org 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.