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.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (%skeleton-directory): New variable.
(dot-or-dot-dot?, copy-account-skeletons): New procedure.
(add-user): Use 'copy-account-skeletons'.
(activate-etc): Use 'dot-or-dot-dot?'.
* 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'.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/18525>.
Reported by Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-modprobe): New procedure.
* gnu/system.scm (modprobe-wrapper): New procedure.
(operating-system-activation-script): Use both.
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-current-system): Honor
$GUIX_NEW_SYSTEM by default.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (switch-to-system): Set $GUIX_NEW_SYSTEM
before loading SCRIPT.
* gnu/build/install.scm (directives): Remove "/bin/sh".
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-/bin/sh): New procedure.
* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-activation-script): Use it.
Before that, 'sudo' would exit with:
sudo: /etc/sudoers is not a regular file
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
* gnu/build/activation.scm (activate-etc): Check if SOURCE matches
'file-is-directory?'. If not, use 'copy-file' instead of 'symlink'.
Ludovic Courtès