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2020-11-29Use substitute servers on the local network....* guix/scripts/discover.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it. * nix/nix-daemon/guix-daemon.cc (options): Add "discover" option, (parse-opt): parse it, (main): start "guix discover" process when the option is set. * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (%local-substitute-urls): New variable, (substitute-urls): add it. * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-configuration>): Add "discover?" field, (guix-shepherd-service): honor it. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-daemon): Document "discover" option, (Base Services): ditto. Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-29publish: Add advertising support....* guix/scripts/publish.scm (%options): Add "--advertise" option. (show-help): Document it. (service-name): New procedure, (publish-service-type): new variable. (run-publish-server): Add "advertise?" and "port" parameters. Use them to publish the server using Avahi. (guix-publish): Pass the "advertise?" option to "run-publish-server". * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-publish-configuration>): Add "advertise?" field. (guix-publish-shepherd-service): Honor it. Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-29Add Avahi support....* guix/avahi.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it. * configure.ac: Add Guile-Avahi dependency. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Document it. * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix)[native-inputs]: Add "guile-avahi", [propagated-inputs]: ditto. * guix/self.scm (specification->package): Add guile-avahi. (compiled-guix): Ditto. Mathieu Othacehe
2020-11-28doc: Fix another typo....* doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Remove a duplicate ‘on’ from the memcached section. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-28Merge branch 'staging'Marius Bakke
2020-11-28doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Replace comma with full stop for Memcached documentation. Marius Bakke
2020-11-28services: MySQL: Upgrade database schemas automatically....* gnu/services/databases.scm (<mysql-configuration>): Add AUTO-UPGRADE? field. (mysql-upgrade-wrapper, mysql-upgrade-shepherd-service, mysql-shepherd-services): New variables. (mysql-service-type): Use MYSQL-SHEPHERD-SERVICES instead of MYSQL-SHEPHERD-SERVICE. * doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Document the AUTO-UPGRADE? field of MYSQL-SERVICE-TYPE. * gnu/tests/databases.scm (run-mysql-test): Test that mysql_upgrade has run. Marius Bakke
2020-11-28services: MySQL: Make the socket configurable....* gnu/services/databases.scm (<mysql-configuration>): Add SOCKET field. (mysql-configuration-file): Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Likewise. Marius Bakke
2020-11-28services: MySQL: Bind to localhost only by default....* gnu/services/databases.scm (<mysql-configuration>): Add BIND-ADDRESS field. (mysql-configuration-file): Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Document it. Marius Bakke
2020-11-28services: MySQL: Deprecate 'mysql-service'....* gnu/services/databases.scm (mysql-service): Define in terms of DEFINE-DEPRECATED. * gnu/tests/databases.scm (%mysql-os): Adjust accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Adjust the MariaDB/MySQL section to document MYSQL-SERVICE-TYPE instead of MYSQL-SERVICE. While at it, document the EXTRA-CONTENT field. Marius Bakke
2020-11-28doc: Update mcron example....This is a followup to 0468455e7d279c89ea3ad1b51935efb2b785ec47, which added mcron to %BASE-SERVICES. * doc/guix.texi (Scheduled Job Execution): Use 'simple-service'. Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-28doc: Remove lzlib from the requirements....This is a followup to 4c0c65acfade63ce0549115d19db4b639c1e9992. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Remove lzlib. Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-26Merge branch 'master' into stagingMarius Bakke
2020-11-26doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Version Control Services): Fix ‘trough’ typo. Reported by guixy on #guix. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-26Merge branch 'master' into stagingMarius Bakke
2020-11-26doc: Tweak LVM-related info....* doc/guix.texi (Limitations): Remove LVM support. (Mapped Devices): Add link the to LVM web site. Tweak wording. Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-26mapped-devices: Add 'lvm-device-mapping'....* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (lvm-device-mapping, open-lvm-device, close-lvm-device): New variables. * gnu/tests/install.scm (%lvm-separate-home-os, %lvm-separate-home-os-source, %lvm-separate-home-installation-script, %test-lvm-separate-home-os): New variables. * gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (raw-initrd): Add (srfi srfi-1) to initrd expression. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Mikhail Tsykalov
2020-11-26mapped-devices: Allow target to be list of strings....* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (<mapped-device>): Rename constructor to %mapped-device. [target]: Remove field. [targets]: New field. Adjust users. (mapped-device-compatibility-helper, mapped-device): New macros. (mapped-device-target): New deprecated procedure. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Mikhail Tsykalov
2020-11-24doc: Fix a typo in WebSSH configuration documentation....* doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Fix a typo in webssh-configuration. Oleg Pykhalov
2020-11-22Merge branch 'master' into stagingMarius Bakke
2020-11-21services: cups: Add Splix by default....* gnu/services/cups.scm (cups-configuration): Add splix to the default extensions. * doc/guix.texi (Printing Services): Document it. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-21gnu: Rename escpr to epson-inkjet-printer-escpr....‘escpr’ is nice and short, but everyone else calls this package ‘epson-inkjet-printer-escpr’. More importantly, so does upstream. * gnu/packages/cups.scm (escpr, epson-inkjet-printer-escpr,): Rename escpr to epson-inkjet-printer-escpr, redefining escpr as deprecated-package. Adjust all users. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-19Merge branch 'master' into stagingMarius Bakke
2020-11-18gnu: vpn: Make ca, key and cert optional....* gnu/services/vpn.scm (openvpn-client-configuration) (openvpn-server-configuration): Make ca, key an cert fields optional. * doc/guix.texi (VPN Services): Document the change. Julien Lepiller
2020-11-18services: cups: Add some extensions by default....* gnu/services/cups.scm (cups-configuration): Add some extensions by default. doc/guix.texi (Printing Services): Document the default value. Danny Milosavljevic
2020-11-17doc: Add a backslash escape to the disk-image example....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Add a backslash escape. Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-17guix: system: Make disk-image root file system non-volatile by default....And add a new '--volatile' option to have it volatile otherwise. * guix/scripts/system.scm (%options)[volatile-root?]: New boolean option. (%default-options): Set its default value to #f. (show-help): Add help doc. * guix/scripts/system.scm (perform-action): Propagate option... (system-derivation-for-action): ...here. Use it to set the volatile-root? field of the image object passed to SYSTEM-IMAGE. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Document it. Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-17doc: Detail which bootloader get used with disk-image or vm-image....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Extend doc. Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-15Merge branch 'master' into stagingMarius Bakke
2020-11-15doc: Add a note about SELinux relabeling after upgrades to guix-daemon....* doc/guix.texi (SELinux Support): Add note about upgrades. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> Daniel Brooks
2020-11-14doc: Remove superfluous comma....* doc/guix.texi (Managing Software the Guix Way): Remove comma. Signed-off-by: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> Matthew Kraai
2020-11-14doc: Document hg-fetch....* doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): Add documentation for hg-fetch. Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> Holger Peters
2020-11-14doc: Fix Guix Build Coordinator agent configuration defaults....* doc/guix.texi (Guix Build Coordinator): Fix some guix-build-coordinator-agent-configuration defaults. Christopher Baines
2020-11-11gnu: mingetty-shepherd-service: Make 'clear-on-logout' configurable....Also change the default configuration to clear on logout, which is the upstream default. * gnu/services/base.scm (<mingetty-configuration>): Add 'clear-on-logout?' field. (mingetty-shepherd-service): Pass the "--noclear" option to mingetty only if 'clear-on-logout?' is #false. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document the 'clear-on-logout?' field. Mark H Weaver
2020-11-07Merge branch 'master' into staging... Conflicts: gnu/local.mk gnu/packages/gdb.scm gnu/packages/lisp-xyz.scm gnu/packages/web-browsers.scm Marius Bakke
2020-11-07doc: Fix Zabbix ‘db-secret-file’ documentation....* doc/guix.texi (Monitoring Services): Clarify ‘db-secret-file’'s (lack of) structure and gexp support. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2020-11-05services: Add yggdrasil-service-type....* gnu/services/networking.scm (yggdrasil-configuration) (yggdrasil-configuration?, yggdrasil-configuration-package) (yggdrasil-configuration-auto-conf, yggdrasil-configuration-log-level) (yggdrasil-configuration-log-to): New procedures. (yggdrasil-service-type): New variable. * doc/guix.texi: Document it. * gnu/system/examples/yggdrasil.tmpl: Provide example. Signed-off-by: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> raingloom
2020-11-03doc: Illustrate procedures that return packages....* doc/guix.texi (Defining Package Variants): Illustrate procedures that return packages. Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-03doc: Use '@lisp' for 'options->transformation' example....* doc/guix.texi (Defining Package Variants): Use @lisp for 'options->transformation' example. Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-02doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish)<cache-bypass-threshold>: The unit suffixes the numeric value. Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-11-02doc: Complete sentence in earlyoom-configuration doc....* doc/guix.texi (Linux Services): Complete sentence in earlyoom-configuration doc. Reported-by: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-01doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (DNS Services): Fix typo. Julien Lepiller
2020-11-01doc: Fix typo....* doc/guix.texi (Sound Services): Fix typo. Julien Lepiller
2020-11-01doc: Add missing period at the end of the sentence.Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
2020-10-31doc: Add "Defining Package Variants" section....* doc/guix.texi (Defining Packages): Move documentation of 'package-input-rewriting' & co. to... (Defining Package Variants): ... here. New node. Also document 'inherit' and 'options->transformation'. Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-30services: guix-publish: Add 'cache-bypass-threshold' field....This is a followup to ecaa102a58ad3ab0b42e04a3d10d7c761c05ec98. * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-publish-configuration>)[cache-bypass-threshold]: New field. (guix-publish-shepherd-service): Honor it. Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-30services: swap: Allow for UUIDs and file system labels....* gnu/services/base.scm (swap-service-type)[device-lookup, device-name]: New variables. Add 'modules' field to 'shepherd-service'. In 'start' and 'stop', use 'device-lookup' to resolve UUIDs and labels. * doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-30scripts: lint: Add '--exclude' option....* guix/scripts/lint.scm (%options, parse-options): Add '--exclude' option. (option-checker): New helper function. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Document it. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> zimoun
2020-10-30scripts: lint: Fix '--no-network' option....* guix/scripts/lint.scm: (show-help): Add '--no-network' option message. (%options, parse-options): Fix argument order. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Document it. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> zimoun
2020-10-28doc: Fix claimed archive timestamps....Reported by Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>. * doc/guix.texi (Binary Installation): Use a correct timestamp of 1 instead of an incorrect one of 0. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice