GNU Guix 0.7 released

2014-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix version 0.7, representing 660 commits by 13 people over 4 months. This release comes with the first image allowing the GNU operating system to be installed from a USB stick. • About GNU Guix is the functional package manager for the GNU syste

Re: [PATCH] guix: package: Fix recutils output for non-package inputs.

2014-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eric Bavier skribis: > From 58f3eec4191b94db440d1689edc58e2d551a4722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Bavier > Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:59:00 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] guix: package: Fix recutils output for non-package inputs. > > * guix/ui.scm (package->recutils)[dependencies]: Ignore non-

Emacs interface for Guix

2014-07-25 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, I have questions about installing/deleting packages using guile repl. I know it is possible to ‘(guix-package "--install" "guile-2.0.11")’, but is there an easy way to install an output of an exact _package object_? I mean not any "guile" but #. I think ‘(guix-package "--install-from-expr

Re: Emacs interface for Guix

2014-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Alex, Alex Kost skribis: > I have questions about installing/deleting packages using guile repl. > I know it is possible to ‘(guix-package "--install" "guile-2.0.11")’, > but is there an easy way to install an output of an exact _package > object_? I mean not any "guile" but #. > > I think

[PATCH] gnu: Add orpheus.

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Bavier
>From 9ffcb2c959be8187c11e5b9d9f29debba57b2c4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Bavier Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:40:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add orpheus. * gnu/packages/orpheus.scm: New file. * gnu/packages/patches/orpheus-cast-errors-and-includes.patch: New patch. * gnu-system.am (GNU_S

Things to do for 0.8

2014-07-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Here’s a brain dump listing items that I think should be worked on for the next release: - ‘ungexp-native’ added, like ‘ungexp’, but to allow a gexp to explicitly refer to a native package (in case of cross-compilation.) - Build system implementations converted to use gexps. - New

[PATCH] gnu: Add texi2html.

2014-07-25 Thread Eric Bavier
>From e2a9c7cd9015e0ff09b5b3918797b3a64394fea2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Bavier Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:37:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add texi2html. * gnu/packages/texinfo.scm (texi2html): New variable. * gnu/packages/patches/texi2html-document-encoding.patch: New patch. * gnu-sys