Hello Guix! 1.0.0rc2 is available for testing! Compared to 1.0.0rc1, it fixes bugs reported by Attila, Florian, Jelle, and Thomas, and adds ‘herd spawn transient’, inspired by Efraim’s ‘shepherd-run’. Will it be the final release candidate? Maybe, we’ll see!
The tarball and signature are available at: https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.0rc2.tar.gz SHA256: 316c9ba8ce63bd9b59b1ff59c0cb400799996c72140246b73516b31e5d5424db https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd/shepherd-1.0.0rc2.tar.gz.sig The tarball was built from v1.0.0rc2 (commit 6e740fbc4a48f6f41800e7ecfc312d6c99d3587b) and should be bit-for-bit reproducible, hopefully for real this time (run “make dist” from ‘guix shell -CP’). What’s new ========== Check out the ‘NEWS’ file to see what you might enjoy: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/tree/NEWS How to test =========== You could still a reference to the tarball above in your Guix checkout, but the preferred way is probably to use Shepherd as a channel, as noted in ‘README’: The Shepherd repository can be used as a Guix “channel”. To do that, change ~/.config/guix/channels.scm along these lines: (append (list (channel (name 'shepherd) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/shepherd.git";;) (branch "main") (introduction (make-channel-introduction "788a6d6f1d5c170db68aa4bbfb77024fdc468ed3" (openpgp-fingerprint "3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5"))))) %default-channels) Once that is done, run ‘guix pull’. This will give you additional ‘shepherd’ packages with higher version numbers: guix package -A shepherd You can then install it with ‘guix install shepherd’, or e.g. use it in an operating-system configuration: (operating-system ... (essential-services (modify-services (operating-system-default-essential-services this-operating-system) (shepherd-root-service-type config => (shepherd-configuration (inherit config) (shepherd (@ (shepherd-package) shepherd))))))) To test with Guix Home: (home-environment (services (list (service home-shepherd-service-type (home-shepherd-configuration (shepherd (@ (shepherd-package) shepherd)))) …))) Testing the new services ======================== Among the highlights of 1.0.0 are the new ‘system-log’ and ‘log-rotation’ services. Testing them requires more changes to your config but feedback would be welcome! First, you can define these two services in your Guix System config: (define system-log-service-type (shepherd-service-type 'shepherd-system-log (const (shepherd-service (documentation "Shepherd's built-in system log (syslogd).") (provision '(system-log syslogd)) (modules '((shepherd service system-log))) (free-form #~(system-log-service)))) #t (description "Shepherd's built-in system log (syslogd)."))) (define log-rotation-service (simple-service 'shepherd-log-rotation shepherd-root-service-type (list (shepherd-service (provision '(log-rotation)) (modules '((shepherd service log-rotation))) (free-form #~(log-rotation-service)))))) Then you can actually use one or both: (operating-system ;; … (services (cons* log-rotation-service (service system-log-service-type) ;; … ;; Remove the currently-used syslogd service, ;; now redundant. (modify-services %desktop-services (delete syslog-service-type))))) Reporting bugs ============== Please email bug-g...@gnu.org with “[Shepherd]” in the subject to report bugs. Translation =========== Consider helping with translation of messages at <https://translationproject.org/domain/shepherd.html>. Thanks in advance. :-) Ludo’.
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