We are pleased to announce GNU Guix version 0.3, the third alpha release, representing 254 commits by 6 people over 2 months.
• About GNU Guix is a functional package manager and distribution of the GNU system. In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management, per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, with Guile Scheme programming interfaces. At this stage Guix can be used on top of an i686 or x86_64 GNU/Linux system. Future versions will stand alone. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ • Download Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.3.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/guix-0.3.tar.gz.sig Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums: 1112e55273ce47cb89ccbdedb2d431f6 guix-0.3.tar.gz 6a3f3c469a8a6bb5316f632a54ffb5df97d3911a guix-0.3.tar.gz [*] 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-0.3.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 EA52ECF4 and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command. This release was bootstrapped with the following tools: Autoconf 2.69 Automake 1.14 Makeinfo 5.1 Guix users can upgrade by running “guix pull”. • Changes since version 0.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file) ** Package management *** Cross-compilation support Guix can now cross-build packages. On the command-line, this is achieved with the new ‘--target’ command-line option of ‘guix build’. At the Scheme level, the guts of this is the ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure. Core packages of the distribution can already be cross-compiled. See the manual for details. *** New ‘--max-silent-time’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” See the manual for details. *** New ‘--fallback’ option for “guix build” and “guix package” This option instructs to fall back to local builds when the substituter fails to download a substitute. *** New ‘--requisites’ option for “guix gc” See the manual for details. *** New ‘--key-download’ option for “guix refresh” See the manual for details. ** Programming interfaces *** New ‘package-cross-derivation’ procedure in (guix derivations) See the manual for details. *** New ‘%current-target-system’ SRFI-39 parameter This parameter is like ‘%current-system’, but for cross-compilation. It allows code in package definitions (such as in the ‘arguments’ field) to know whether it is being cross-compiled, and what the target system is. *** New (guix hash) module; new ‘open-sha256-port’ and ‘sha256-port’ procedures This improves performance of SHA256 computations. ** GNU distribution *** 33 new packages alsa-lib, babel, cairo, cvs, gcal, gcc-cross-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64, gd, gdk-pixbuf, graphviz, grue-hunter, gtk+, gts, harfbuzz, imagemagick, iproute2, iptables, libspectre, mpg321, noweb, pango, plotutils, privoxy, pytz, racket, rubber, rush, strace, tk, torsocks, unrtf, vc-dwim, wordnet, xlockmore *** 25 package updates automake 1.14, ed 1.9, freeipmi 1.2.8, gawk 4.1.0, gcc 4.8.1, gettext 0.18.3, glib 2.37.1, gmp 5.1.2, gnutls 3.2.1, gzip 1.6, help2man 1.43.3, libapr 1.4.8, libaprutil 1.5.2, libassuan 2.1.1, libffi 3.0.13, libgc 7.2d, libgpg-error 1.12, libidn 1.28, libpng 1.5.17, lout 3.40, lsh 2.1, nettle 2.7.1, qemu 1.5.1, tzdata 2013d, xorriso 1.3.0 *** Binary packages now available for i686-linux The build farm at http://hydra.gnu.org now provides 32-bit GNU/Linux binaries (i686-linux), in addition to the x86_64-linux binaries. Both can be transparently used as substitutes for local builds on these platforms. *** Debug info packages Some packages now have a “debug” output containing debugging information. The “debug” output can be used by GDB, and can be installed separately from the other outputs of the package. See “Installing Debugging Files” in the manual. *** Bootstrap binaries can be cross-compiled The distribution can now be ported to new architectures (currently GNU/Linux-only) by cross-compiling the “bootstrap binaries”. See “Porting” in the manual. *** Bootstrapping documented See “Bootstrapping” in the manual, for information on how the GNU distribution builds “from scratch”. ** Internationalization New translations: eo, pt_BR. ** Bugs fixed *** “guix --help” now works when using Guile 2.0.5 *** Binary substituter multi-threading and pipe issues fixed These could lead to random substituter crashes while substituting a binary. See commits 0332386 and 101d9f3 for details. *** Binary substituter gracefully handles lack of network connectivity *** Daemon properly handles rebuilds of multiple-output derivations Previously it would fail when rebuilding a multiple-output derivation when some (but not all) of its outputs were already present. See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-06/msg00038.html and https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/122 . *** ‘guix package -i foo:out’ no longer removes other outputs of ‘foo’ Previously only the ‘out’ output of package ‘foo’ would be kept in the profile. *** Replacement (srfi srfi-37) provided if the user’s one is broken When the user’s (srfi srfi-37) is affected by http://bugs.gnu.org/13176 (Guile < 2.0.9), a replacement with the bug fix is provided. This bug would affect command-line argument processing in some cases. Please report bugs to bug-g...@gnu.org. Join guix-de...@gnu.org for discussions. Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team.
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