Suggested by Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>.
* doc/guix.texi (Using the Configuration System): Remove 'password'
field in the example.
(User Accounts): Clarify use of the 'password' field, with links to
the libc and Guile manuals.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-firmware): New procedure.
* gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>)[firmware]: New field.
(directory-union): New procedure.
(%base-firmware): New variable.
(operating-system-activation-script): Use 'directory-union', and call
'activate-firmware'.
* doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Document 'firmware'.
* guix/gexp.scm (gexp->derivation): Add #:module-path parameter, and
pass it to 'imported-modules' and 'compiled-modules'.
* doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Adjust accordingly.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store-script): Add "$@" at
the end of the script.
(common-qemu-options): Remove trailing newline.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document it.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store): Add
#:disk-image-size and #:full-boot? parameters and honor them. Pass
'#:copy-inputs? full-boot?', and change #:inputs argument.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (system-derivation-for-action): Pass
#:disk-image-size to 'system-qemu-image/shared-store'.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Mention use of '--image-size' in
conjunction with '--full-boot'.
* gnu/services/xorg.scm (xorg-start-command): Add #:drivers parameter.
Add 'device-section' procedure, and use it in 'xserver.conf'.
* doc/guix.texi (X Window): Document it.
Thanks to Mark H. Weaver <mhw@netris.org> for insightful discussions
and suggestions.
* guix/packages.scm (<package>)[graft]: New field.
(patch-and-repack): Invoke 'package-derivation' with #:graft? #f.
(package-source-derivation): Likewise. Do not use (%guile-for-build)
in call to 'patch-and-repack', and we could end up using a grafted
Guile.
(expand-input): Likewise, also for 'package-cross-derivation' call.
(package->bag): Add #:graft? parameter. Honor it. Use 'strip-append'
instead of 'package-full-name'.
(input-graft, input-cross-graft, bag-grafts, package-grafts): New
procedures.
(package-derivation, package-cross-derivation): Add #:graft? parameter
and honor it.
* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (package-with-bootstrap-guile): Add
recursive call on 'graft'.
* guix/build-system/gnu.scm (package-with-explicit-inputs,
package-with-extra-configure-variable, static-package): Likewise.
(gnu-build): Use the ungrafted Guile to avoid full rebuilds.
(gnu-cross-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/cmake.scm (cmake-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/glib-or-gtk.scm (glib-or-gtk-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/perl.scm (perl-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/python.scm (python-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/ruby.scm (ruby-build): Likewise.
* guix/build-system/trivial.scm (guile-for-build): Likewise.
* tests/packages.scm ("package-derivation, direct graft",
"package-cross-derivation, direct graft", "package-grafts,
indirect grafts", "package-grafts, indirect grafts, cross",
"package-grafts, indirect grafts, propagated inputs",
"package-derivation, indirect grafts"): New tests.
("bag->derivation", "bag->derivation, cross-compilation"): Wrap in
'parameterize'.
* doc/guix.texi (Security Updates): New node.
(Invoking guix build): Document --no-graft.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (switch-to-generation): New procedure.
(switch-to-previous-generation): Use it.
(guix-package): Adjust for '--switch-generation' option.
* tests/guix-package.sh: Test it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Document it.
* doc/guix.texi (Using the Configuration System): Add xref to
"operating-system Reference".
(operating-system Reference): New section.
(Networking Services): Add xref to it.
* guix/build-system.scm (<build-system>)[build, cross-build]: Remove.
[lower]: New field.
(<bag>): New record type.
(make-bag): New procedure.
* guix/packages.scm (bag-transitive-inputs, bag-transitive-build-inputs,
bag-transitive-host-inputs, bag-transitive-target-inputs,
package->bag): New procedures.
(package-derivation): Use it; use the bag, apply its build procedure,
etc.
(package-cross-derivation): Likewise.
* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (raw-build, make-raw-bag): New procedure.
(%bootstrap-guile): Use them.
* guix/build-system/trivial.scm (lower): New procedure.
(trivial-build, trivial-cross-build): Remove 'source' parameter. Pass
INPUTS as is.
(trivial-build-system): Adjust accordingly.
* guix/build-system/gnu.scm (%store, inputs-search-paths,
standard-search-paths, expand-inputs, standard-inputs): Remove.
(gnu-lower): New procedure.
(gnu-build): Remove 'source' and #:implicit-inputs? parameters.
Remove 'implicit-inputs' and 'implicit-search-paths' variables. Get
the source from INPUT-DRVS.
(gnu-cross-build): Likewise.
(standard-cross-packages): Remove call to 'standard-packages'.
(standard-cross-inputs, standard-cross-search-paths): Remove.
(gnu-build-system): Remove 'build' and 'cross-build'; add 'lower'.
* guix/build-system/cmake.scm (lower): New procedure.
(cmake-build): Remove 'source' and #:cmake parameters. Use INPUTS and
SEARCH-PATHS as is. Get the source from INPUTS.
* guix/build-system/perl.scm: Likewise.
* guix/build-system/python.scm: Likewise.
* guix/build-system/ruby.scm: Likewise.
* gnu/packages/cross-base.scm (cross-gcc): Change "cross-linux-headers"
to "linux-headers".
(cross-libc)[xlinux-headers]: Pass #:implicit-cross-inputs? #f.
Likewise. In 'propagated-inputs', change "cross-linux-headers" to
"linux-headers".
* guix/git-download.scm (git-fetch): Use 'standard-packages' instead of
'standard-inputs'.
* tests/builders.scm ("gnu-build-system"): Remove use of
'build-system-builder'.
("gnu-build"): Remove 'source' and #:implicit-inputs? arguments to
'gnu-build'.
* tests/packages.scm ("search paths"): Adjust to new build system API.
("package-cross-derivation, no cross builder"): Likewise.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Add paragraph on bags.
* guix/build-system/cmake.scm (cmake-build): Add #:build-type. Pass it
in BUILDER.
* guix/build/cmake-build-system.scm (configure): Add #:build-type
parameter and honor it.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Document #:configure-flags and
#:build-type for CMake.
* guix/ui.scm (size->number): Add a bunch of large units. Recognize
one-letter unit names. Change "KB" to "kB".
* tests/ui.scm ("size->number, 1T"): New test.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix gc): Add cross-reference to "Block size"
in the Coreutils manual.
(Invoking guix system): Likewise.
This fixes regressions introduced in de1c158 ("system: Add support for
boot-time mapped devices.").
* doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): Adjust example with custom use of
'base-initrd'. Document #:mapped-devices parameter of 'base-initrd'.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-disk-image, system-qemu-image,
virtualized-operating-system): Adjust call to 'base-initrd' to new
signature.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (expression->initrd): Remove #:linux and
#:linux-modules parameters. Remove call to
'float-linux-module-directory'.
(base-initrd): Add call to 'float-linux-module-directory'. Use it in
#:linux-modules argument in the gexp. Remove #:linux and
#:linux-modules arguments to 'expression->initrd'.
* gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm (build-initrd): Remove
#:linux-module-directory parameter. Don't create 'modules'
sub-directory.
* gnu/build/linux-boot.scm (boot-system): Mentin that LINUX-MODULES is a
list of absolute file names. Don't prepend "/modules/" to
LINUX-MODULES.
* doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): Adjust accordingly.
Ludovic Courtès