GNU Guix 0.8.3 released
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.8.3, representing 828 commits by 25 people over 2 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution is (GuixSD) an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management and is highly hackable. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. The operating system uses the Linux-Libre kernel and the GNU dmd init system. At this stage it can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.8.3.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.8.3.tar.gz.sig Here are the bootable USB installation images and their signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz.sig Here are the binary tarballs and their signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA1 checksums: 212c50a651867baa483d645284c7676e1b073a70 guix-0.8.3.tar.gz 519a3e016101a482e405c7686cfc195e3014707a guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.tar.xz 730a6e3b43f923788814c04c7ab0023d469b598c guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.tar.xz bb4337f92cf6f08108d554ace95eb37197d9aa32 guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.tar.xz cc6df13b226c6d8ef10ff1f70ec08000da92a171 guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz 767cfe4b7d667cdf697e215b53dd4b44e9f3caff guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz c2964cdae745ae2dff08eee9f973a763e1596694 guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz [*] 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-0.8.3.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 3D9AEBB5 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.15 Makeinfo 6.0 Help2man 1.47.1 To install the Guix System Distribution, please see “System Installation” in the manual. To install Guix on a running system, see “Installation” in the manual. • Changes since version 0.8.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** Package management *** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands *** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles *** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI *** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode *** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument *** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment *** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’ *** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful to adjust ‘PS1’ *** New ‘--optimize’ and ‘--verify’ options to ‘guix gc’ *** ‘guix build --with-source’ can now be passed a directory *** New ‘elpa’ importer for ‘guix import’ *** ‘guix import pypi’ determines the list of dependencies *** New ‘--substitute-urls’ option for ‘guix build’ and other commands *** ‘guix substitute’ can now alternate between different substitute URLs *** New “Running Guix Before It Is Installed” section in the manual *** Basic manual pages for the ‘guix’ commands are now shipped *** Building the daemon now necessitates a C++11 compiler ** Distribution *** New ‘%base-user-accounts’ variable, for common system accounts *** New ‘--on-error’ option for ‘guix system’ *** New ‘plain-file’ construct,
Re: GNU Guix 0.8.3 released
You should make some buzz outside the mailing-list (actually I think it is gnu-system-disc) about Guix. How big is the user base today? It is not bad to have 25 commuters… Kudos to all of you! :-) Makes a GNU-heart” happy. Now to the cons (the prior was the pros): I donnu about Guile Scheme, heard from former Cygnus ppl (including Ian Taylor IIRC) it was a mistake. Is this why it doesn’t make any buzz or is it because you don’t try hard enough to contact the papers??? Would be nice if someone signed up to advocate Guix for distress etc… I am obviously not a marketing person ;-) Maybe someone else around is??? //M - The Panama-hat hacker On 22 Jul 2015, at 11:07 , Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.8.3, representing 828 commits by 25 people over 2 months. • About GNU Guix is a functional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution is (GuixSD) an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration management and is highly hackable. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language. The operating system uses the Linux-Libre kernel and the GNU dmd init system. At this stage it can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and armv7. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.8.3.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.8.3.tar.gz.sig Here are the bootable USB installation images and their signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz.sig Here are the binary tarballs and their signatures[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.xz.sig ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.xz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.xz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the SHA1 checksums: 212c50a651867baa483d645284c7676e1b073a70 guix-0.8.3.tar.gz 519a3e016101a482e405c7686cfc195e3014707a guix-binary-0.8.3.armhf-linux.tar.xz 730a6e3b43f923788814c04c7ab0023d469b598c guix-binary-0.8.3.i686-linux.tar.xz bb4337f92cf6f08108d554ace95eb37197d9aa32 guix-binary-0.8.3.mips64el-linux.tar.xz cc6df13b226c6d8ef10ff1f70ec08000da92a171 guix-binary-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.tar.xz 767cfe4b7d667cdf697e215b53dd4b44e9f3caff guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.i686-linux.xz c2964cdae745ae2dff08eee9f973a763e1596694 guixsd-usb-install-0.8.3.x86_64-linux.xz [*] 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-0.8.3.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 3D9AEBB5 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.15 Makeinfo 6.0 Help2man 1.47.1 To install the Guix System Distribution, please see “System Installation” in the manual. To install Guix on a running system, see “Installation” in the manual. • Changes since version 0.8.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** Package management *** New ‘guix edit’ and ‘guix size’ commands *** New ‘--manifest’ option for ‘guix package’, for declarative profiles *** Similarly, new ‘M-x guix-apply-manifest’ for the Emacs UI *** Emacs support now includes completion for ‘guix’ commands in shell-mode *** ‘guix package --search-paths’ now takes an optional argument *** ‘guix environment --ad-hoc’ creates a custom development environment *** New ‘--system’ option for ‘guix environment’ *** ‘guix environment’ defines $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, useful
