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2 | #+TITLE: Guix NEWS – history of user-visible changes | |
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5 | Copyright © 2013 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | |
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7 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
8 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
9 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
10 | ||
11 | Please send Guix bug reports to bug-guix@gnu.org. | |
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14 | * Changes in 0.3 (since 0.2) |
15 | ||
16 | ** Package management | |
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17 | |
18 | *** Cross-compilation support | |
19 | ||
20 | Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with | |
21 | the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level, | |
22 | the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages | |
23 | of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for | |
24 | details. | |
25 | ||
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26 | *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
27 | ||
28 | See the manual for details. | |
29 | ||
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30 | *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” |
31 | ||
32 | This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails | |
33 | to download a substitute. | |
34 | ||
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35 | *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc” |
36 | ||
37 | See the manual for details. | |
38 | ||
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39 | *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh” |
40 | ||
41 | See the manual for details. | |
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42 | |
43 | ** Programming interfaces | |
44 | ||
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45 | *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations) |
46 | ||
47 | See the manual for details. | |
48 | ||
49 | *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter | |
50 | ||
51 | This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It | |
52 | allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know | |
53 | whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is. | |
54 | ||
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55 | *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures |
56 | ||
57 | This improves performance of SHA256 computations. | |
58 | ||
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59 | |
60 | ** GNU distribution | |
61 | ||
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64 | alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd, |
65 | gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2, | |
66 | iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket, | |
67 | rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore | |
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3253830d | 69 | *** 25 package updates |
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71 | automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3, |
72 | glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8, | |
73 | libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error | |
74 | 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu | |
75 | 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0 | |
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76 | |
77 | *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux | |
78 | ||
79 | The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries | |
80 | (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be | |
81 | transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms. | |
82 | ||
83 | *** Debug info packages | |
84 | ||
85 | Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The | |
86 | “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the | |
87 | other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual. | |
88 | ||
89 | *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled | |
90 | ||
91 | The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently | |
92 | GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting” | |
93 | in the manual. | |
94 | ||
95 | *** Bootstrapping documented | |
96 | ||
97 | See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU | |
98 | distribution builds “from scratch”. | |
99 | ||
100 | ** Internationalization | |
101 | ||
102 | New translations: eo, pt_BR. | |
103 | ||
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104 | ** Bugs fixed |
105 | *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5 | |
106 | *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed | |
107 | ||
108 | These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary. | |
109 | See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details. | |
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111 | *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity |
112 | ||
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113 | *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations |
114 | ||
115 | Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when | |
116 | some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See | |
117 | http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and | |
118 | https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 . | |
119 | ||
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120 | *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’ |
121 | ||
122 | Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the | |
123 | profile. | |
124 | ||
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125 | *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken |
126 | ||
127 | When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile | |
128 | < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect | |
129 | command-line argument processing in some cases. | |
130 | ||
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131 | * Changes in 0.2 (since 0.1) |
132 | ||
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133 | ** Package management |
134 | ||
135 | *** Guix commands are now sub-commands of the “guix” program | |
136 | ||
137 | Instead of typing “guix-package”, one now has to type “guix package”, and so | |
138 | on. This has allowed us to homogenize the user interface and initial program | |
139 | setup, and to allow commands to be upgradable through “guix pull”. | |
140 | ||
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141 | *** New “guix package --upgrade” option |
142 | ||
143 | As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages | |
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144 | installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp. |
145 | See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. | |
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147 | *** New “guix package --search” option |
148 | ||
149 | Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns | |
150 | the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the | |
151 | manual, for details. | |
152 | ||
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153 | *** New “guix pull” command |
154 | ||
155 | The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management | |
156 | modules and the distribution. See the manual for details. | |
157 | ||
158 | *** New binary substituter | |
159 | ||
160 | The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently | |
161 | downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are | |
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162 | available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The |
163 | distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there. | |
164 | ||
165 | See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of | |
166 | available binary packages. | |
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167 | |
168 | *** New “guix refresh” command | |
169 | ||
170 | The command is used by Guix maintainers. It automatically updates the | |
171 | distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software. | |
172 | ||
173 | *** New “guix hash” command | |
174 | ||
175 | Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for | |
176 | details. | |
177 | ||
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180 | The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated |
181 | to current Nix ‘master’. | |
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182 | |
183 | ** Programming interfaces | |
184 | ||
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185 | *** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS |
186 | ||
187 | It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. | |
188 | ||
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189 | *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields |
190 | ||
191 | Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables | |
192 | that define search paths and need to be set for proper functioning of the | |
193 | package. For instance, GCC has ‘CPATH’ and ‘LIBRARY_PATH’ in its | |
194 | ‘native-search-path’, Perl has ‘PERL5LIB’, Python has ‘PYTHONPATH’, etc. | |
195 | These environment variables are automatically set when building a package that | |
196 | uses one of these. | |
197 | ||
198 | *** Package inputs can be a function of the target system type | |
199 | ||
200 | The ‘inputs’ field of a package can now be conditional on the value of | |
201 | (%current-system). This is useful for packages that take system-dependent | |
202 | tarballs as inputs, such as GNU/MIT Scheme. | |
203 | ||
204 | *** New build systems | |
205 | ||
206 | The ‘perl-build-system’, ‘python-build-system’, and ‘cmake-build-system’ have | |
207 | been added. They implement the standard build systems for Perl, Python, and | |
208 | CMake packages. | |
209 | ||
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210 | *** Tools to build Linux initrds, QEMU images, and more |
211 | ||
212 | The (gnu packages linux-initrd) module provides a procedure to build a Linux | |
213 | initrd (“initial RAM disk”). The initrd embeds Guile, which is used to | |
214 | evaluate the given expression. The example below returns an initrd that | |
215 | mounts the /proc file system and starts a REPL: | |
216 | ||
217 | (expression->initrd | |
218 | '(begin | |
219 | (mkdir "/proc") | |
220 | (mount "none" "/proc" "proc") | |
221 | ((@ (system repl repl) start-repl)))) | |
222 | ||
223 | More examples in the linux-initrd.scm file. | |
224 | ||
225 | Experimental interfaces to produce and use QEMU images are provided by the | |
226 | (gnu system vm) module. For instance, the | |
227 | ‘expression->derivation-in-linux-vm’ evaluates the given Scheme expression in | |
228 | a QEMU virtual machine running the Linux kernel and Guile. | |
229 | ||
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230 | ** GNU distribution |
231 | ||
232 | Many updates and additions have been made to the distribution. Here are the | |
233 | highlights. | |
234 | ||
235 | *** Major updates | |
236 | ||
237 | GCC 4.7.3 (the default) and GCC 4.8.0, Binutils 2.23.2, Guile 2.0.9, | |
238 | Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1. | |
239 | ||
240 | *** Noteworthy new packages | |
241 | ||
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242 | TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, |
243 | CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |