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#+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro

Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2015, 2017 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Copyright © 2017 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>

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* Contributing

See the manual for useful hacking information, either by running

  info -f doc/guix.info "Contributing"

or by checking the [[https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Contributing.html][web copy of the manual]].
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<div class='path'>path: <a href='/guix/log/?id=ce27cde2629d54eeb135e0e4754f3ab35a0fddaf'>root</a>/<a href='/guix/log/build-aux?id=ce27cde2629d54eeb135e0e4754f3ab35a0fddaf'>build-aux</a>/<a href='/guix/log/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=ce27cde2629d54eeb135e0e4754f3ab35a0fddaf'>update-NEWS.scm</a></div><div class='content'><table class='list nowrap'><tr class='nohover'><th class='left'>Age</th><th class='left'>Commit message (<a href='/guix/log/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=ce27cde2629d54eeb135e0e4754f3ab35a0fddaf&amp;showmsg=1'>Expand</a>)</th><th class='left'>Author</th></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-05-10 13:48:02 -0400'>2021-05-10</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=ed2d4d52dde00bdccc1bb2c93b24ffcc72a7fcd3'>maint: update-NEWS: Sort packages prior writing to the data file.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (main): Sort packages.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2021-04-23 21:32:46 -0400'>2021-04-23</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=18dc8c6f0f76b8d128638105eebad2895f9857f0'>build-aux: Relax the regexp used to match NEWS sections.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>A number of packages doesn't really make sense in the name of the section to
be substituted.  This change allows using simply '*** new packages' instead of
'*** 1999 new packages', for example, and have the update-NEWS.scm script
update it.

* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (write-packages-added) &lt;regexp&gt;: Do not care about
leading white space in the name of the section.
</span></span></td><td>Maxim Cournoyer</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2019-05-20 11:50:21 +0200'>2019-05-20</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=996ecaf64e397341dbed70198032ce828040e5ac'>maint: update-NEWS: Track "gcc-toolchain", not "gcc".</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>This is a followup to d78010b81ee6ef4fd8803082e2f401b9e55b44db.

* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (write-packages-updates)[important]: Replace
"gcc" by "gcc-toolchain".
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2018-12-05 00:08:34 +0100'>2018-12-05</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=e3c03952be99419b958e98e5934fb3b86f71165d'>maint: update-NEWS: Don't produce full package lists.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>The lists of new and upgraded packages in 'NEWS' had become way too long
and redundant with what 'guix pull' reports.

* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (write-packages-added): Don't print ADDED.
(write-packages-updates)[important, table, latest, noteworthy]: New
variables.
Print NOTEWORTHY rather than all of UPGRADED.
(main): Print PREVIOUS-VERSION and NEW-VERSION.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2018-09-02 16:43:10 +0200'>2018-09-02</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=fe634eaf93ba40862acdf62d7f197c6f19f0651c'>Add (guix describe) and use it to initialize '%package-search-path'.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* guix/describe.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it.
* gnu/packages.scm (%default-package-module-path): New variable.
(%package-module-path): Honor 'package-path-entries'.
* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (main): Use %DEFAULT-PACKAGE-MODULE-PATH
instead of (last (%package-module-path)).
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>
<tr><td><span title='2017-05-18 16:24:02 +0200'>2017-05-18</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm?id=920803fbf443f7e40ed299f433255f10a4ae9fb3'>maint: Add 'update-NEWS' target.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>* build-aux/update-NEWS.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add it.
(GUIX_MAINTENANCE_DIRECTORY): New variable.
(update-NEWS): New target.
(.PHONY): Add it.
</span></span></td><td>Ludovic Courtès</td></tr>