Suggested by Thomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>.
* gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Remove
"/root/.guix-profile" from the 'tar' arguments.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Add a step to create
~root/.guix-profile.
Suggested by Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch>.
* guix/monads.scm (bind-syntax): New macro.
(with-monad): Use it instead of 'identifier-syntax'.
* tests/monads.scm (">>= with more than two arguments"): New test.
* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Explain that there can be several MPROC.
Add an example.
Partly fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/20720>.
Reported by Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>.
* gnu/system.scm (default-/etc/hosts): Change 'text-file' to 'plain-file'.
(maybe-file->monadic): New procedure.
(operating-system-etc-directory): Use it.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference, Networking Services): Adjust
accordingly.
Partly fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/20720>
Reported by Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>.
* gnu/system.scm (etc-directory): Change default #:sudoers value to a
'plain-file'. Don't bind it. Remove #~#$.
(maybe-string->file): New procedure.
(operating-system-etc-directory): Use it.
(%sudoers-specification): Use 'plain-file'.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Adjust accordingly.
* guix/scripts/environment.scm (%options): Add "ad-hoc" option.
(show-help): Display help for "--ad-hoc".
(packages+propagated-inputs): New procedure.
(guix-environment): Create ad hoc environment when asked.
* doc/guix.texi ("invoking guix environment"): Document it.
* guix/ui.scm (load*): Add #:on-error parameter.
[tag, error-string]: New variables.
Wrap 'load' call in 'call-with-prompt'. Pass TAG to 'make-stack'. Honor
ON-ERROR after 'report-load-error' call.
(report-load-error): Change to not exit on error. Make private.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (show-help, %options): Add --on-error.
(guix-system): Use 'load*' and pass it #:on-error.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (%base-user-accounts): New variable.
* gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>)[users]: Use it as the default value.
* gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl (users): Use it.
* gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl (users): Likewise.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference, User Accounts): Adjust
accordingly.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention the declarative approach and
--manifest in the intro. And an anchor for --manifest. Explain why/how it
can be used. Tweak wording.
* gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-configuration-file): New procedure, with code
formerly in 'xorg-start-command'.
(xorg-start-command): Remove #:drivers and #:resolutions; add
#:configuration-file; use it as well as 'xorg-configuration-file'.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (search-path-environment-variables): Add #:kind
parameter. Pass it to 'environment-variable-definition'.
(display-search-paths): Add #:kind parameter and pass it to
'search-path-environment-variables'.
(%options): Add an optional parameter for "--search-paths".
(guix-package)[process-query]: Handle it.
* tests/guix-package-net.sh: Adjust existing test.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Adjust existing tests and add new test.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document it.
Fixes a thinko introduced in 175ced4.
* gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Use "root:0" as the
owner and group.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Revert 175ced4.
Suggested by Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
at <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-05/msg00220.html>.
* gnu/system/install.scm (self-contained-tarball): Pass --owner and
--group to 'tar'.
* doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Move group and account creation
before extraction. Make "run the daemon" a separate step.
Reported by Scott McDonough <smcdonough1@gmail.com>
in <http://bugs.gnu.org/20582>.
* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Suggested setting the interface
up before running 'dhclient'.
* guix/scripts/publish.scm (show-help, %options): Add --listen.
(getaddrinfo*): New procedure.
(%default-options): Add 'address'.
(open-server-socket): Replace 'addr' and 'port' with 'address', a
sockaddr.
(guix-publish): Adjust accordingly. Augment "publishing" message with
the actual address.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish): Document it.
* guix/scripts/publish.scm (show-help): Add --user.
(%options): Likewise.
(run-publish-server): Change 'port' parameter to 'socket'. Pass
#:socket instead of #:addr and #:port to 'run-server'. Update caller
accordingly.
(open-server-socket, gather-user-privileges): New procedures.
(guix-publish): Use them. Force %PRIVATE-KEY and %PUBLIC-KEY early
on. Warn when running as root.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish): Document --user.
* doc/guix.texi (Using the Configuration System): Add xref to "X.509
Certificates".
(X.509 Certificates): New section.
* gnu/system/examples/desktop.tmpl: Use NSS-CERTS.
* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Add xref to "Using the
Configuration System" instead of including one here.
(Using the Configuration System): Remove first example, and include
os-config-bare-bones.texi instead. Include os-config-desktop.texi as
a second example.
* doc.am (OS_CONFIG_EXAMPLES_TEXI): New variable.
(BUILT_SOURCES, EXTRA_DIST, MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Use it.
(doc/os-config.texi): Remove.
(doc/os-config-%.texi): New target.
* gnu/system/install.scm (configuration-template-service): Remove
'local-template' and 'template'. Add 'search' and 'templates'.
[activate]: Copy all of TEMPLATES to /etc/configuration.
* doc/guix.texi (System Installation): Adjust file name accordingly.
* gnu/services/colord.scm, gnu/services/dbus.scm,
gnu/services/upower.scm: Remove.
* gnu/services/desktop.scm: New file, with contents taken from the above
files.
* gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Adjust accordingly.
* doc/guix.texi (Desktop Services): New section.
(Various Services): Move colord-service and upower-service from
here to "Desktop Services".
Reported by Christopher A. Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>.
* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Reintroduce 'mlet' in 'sh-symlink'
example. Move the simplified version below. Explain that the 'store'
parameter is threaded.
* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Replace reference to "profile.sh",
which is not defined until the next node, with "sh-symlink", which
is defined immediately above
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
* gnu/packages.scm (find-packages-by-name): Sort MATCHING according to
'version>?'. Use 'string-prefix?' instead of 'string=?' to compare
against VERSION.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Add example and explanation.
* guix/scripts/refresh.scm (guix-refresh): Use 'specification->package'
instead of 'find-packages-by-name'. This allows users to specify
things like "qt-4.8.6".
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix refresh): Add an example.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (%options): Add the '--do-not-upgrade' option.
(show-help): Document it.
(options->installable): Add 'do-not-upgrade-regexps' variable.
Use it in 'packages-to-upgrade'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document the '--do-not-upgrade'
option.
* doc/guix.texi (Name Service Switch): Add link to nss-mdns. Add
example show how to pass #:name-services to 'nscd-service'.
(Base Services): Add link from 'nscd-service' to the above.
* gnu/services/base.scm (nscd-service): Update docstring accordingly.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/19795>.
Reported by David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (enumerate, current-users, current-groups,
delete-user, delete-group): New procedures.
(activate-users+groups): Add calls to 'delete-user' and
'delete-group'.
* doc/guix.texi (User Accounts): Add a paragraph about statelessness.
Explain that passwords are preserved.
* guix/gexp.scm (<local-file>): New record type.
(local-file): New procedure.
(local-file-compiler): New compiler.
(gexp->sexp) <struct? thing>: Handle the case where 'lower' returns a
file name.
(text-file*): Update docstring.local-file doc
* tests/gexp.scm ("one local file", "gexp->derivation, local-file"): New
tests.
* doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Mention local files early. Document
'local-file'. Update 'text-file*' documentation.
This is a followup to bcb1328.
* doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Move paragraph about extensibility
below. Remove assumptions that things are either packages or
derivations.
From now own, (guix packages) depends on (guix gexps); it was the other
way around now. This means that (guix packages) code can use gexps.
* guix/gexp.scm (origin-compiler, package-compiler): Remove.
(default-guile-derivation): New procedure.
(gexp->derivation): Use it instead of 'default-guile' +
'package->derivation'.
* guix/packages.scm (default-guile-derivation): New procedure.
(package-compiler, origin-compiler): New variables.
* doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Mention extensibility.
That makes WindowMaker the default session, by default.
* gnu/services/xorg.scm (xsessions-directory)[builder]: Prepend a number
in the file name to preserve the order of SESSIONS.
(slim-service): Augment docstring.
* doc/guix.texi (X Window): Adjust accordingly.
* guix/store.scm (text-file): Add optional 'references' parameter. Pass
it to 'add-text-to-store'.
* doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Adjust accordingly.
Ludovic Courtès