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-*- mode: org; coding: utf-8; -*-

#+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>

  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
  are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
  notice and this notice are preserved.

* 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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inckx-Rice 2019-09-25installer: Update to Guile-Parted 0.0.2 release....* gnu/installer/parted.scm (data-partition?, metadata-partition?, freespace-partition?, normal-partition?, extended-partition?, logical-partition?): Remove, as now provided by Guile-Parted. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-disk-page): Remove disk-destroy calls, replace disk-delete-all by disk-remove-all-partitions and disk-delete-partition by disk-remove-partition*. Mathieu Othacehe 2019-09-23installer: Fix run-input-page calls....This fixes 55c43108 commit that renamed input-hide-checkbox? into input-visibility-checkbox?. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (prompt-luks-passwords): Rename input-hide-checkbox? into input-visibility-checkbox?. Mathieu Othacehe 2019-08-26installer: Hide the Wi-Fi passphrase by default....* gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm (run-wifi-password-page): Add an #:INPUT-VISIBILITY-CHECKBOX? to the input page. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 2019-08-26installer: Show, don't Hide....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page): Change the input visibility checkbox's text to ‘Show’, and default to unchecked. * gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-input-page): Likewise. Rename INPUT-HIDE-CHECKBOX? argument to INPUT-VISIBILITY-CHECKBOX?. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 2019-06-08installer: Fix typo....* gnu/installer/newt/network.scm (run-technology-page): Fix plural typo. Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 2019-05-29installer: Fix wifi menu crash with hidden SSIDs....This fixes https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/35622. * gnu/installer/connman.scm (<service>): Mention that name may be false. * gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm (wifi-services): Filter out wifi services without name. Co-authored by: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> Mathieu Othacehe 2019-05-19installer: Fix Guile-Parted crash on i686....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35783>. This is a followup to 7d567af46b4e10ffafb1d0f76b524f5781460598. * gnu/installer/parted.scm (auto-partition!): Append ESP-PARTITION, when it is true, to the result of 'create-adjacent-partitions!'. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-partioning-page): Remove 'initial-partitions' variable, and remove call to 'create-special-user-partitions'. Co-authored-by: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-15installer: Rename 'auto-partition' to 'auto-partition!'....This is a followup to 7d567af46b4e10ffafb1d0f76b524f5781460598. * gnu/installer/parted.scm (create-adjacent-partitions): Rename to... (create-adjacent-partitions!): ... this. Make private. (auto-partition): Rename to... (auto-partition!): ... this. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-partioning-page): Adjust accordingly. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-15installer: Mount ESP once only....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35731>. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-partioning-page)[run-page]: Introduce 'initial-partitions' variable. Previously we'd call 'disk-partitions' after 'auto-partition' had done its job of creating new partitions, and thus its result would contain the just-created partitions. Consequently, 'create-special-user-partitions' would return the ESP partition we just created, and thus it would appear twice in the list. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-14installer: Add fat16....* gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-fs-type-page): Add fat16. Danny Milosavljevic 2019-05-14installer: Reflow run-file-textbox-page text....* gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-file-textbox-page): Reflow text. Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> Mathieu Othacehe 2019-05-14installer: Allow for arbitrary long passphrases and passwords....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35716>. Reported by sirmacik <sirmacik@wioo.waw.pl>. * gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-input-page): Add FLAG-SCROLL to INPUT-FLAGS*. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page): Add FLAG-SCROLL to ENTRY-PASSWORD. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-09installer: Add missing 'G_' call....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-page): Add 'G_' call for "User creation". Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-07installer: "Exit" button in user page actually exits....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35607>. Reported by Florian Pelz <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-page): Add 'cond' clause for ARGUMENT = EXIT-BUTTON. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-07installer: Add password 'hide' checkbox....* gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-input-page)[input-hide-checkbox?]: New parameter adding a checkbox to toggle password hiding. By default, the checkbox is active and the password is hence hided. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (prompt-luks-passwords): Enable the previous parameter on both password input pages. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-root-password-page): Enable the previous parameter, (confirm-password): ditto, (run-user-add-page): add a checkbox to toggle password hiding. Mathieu Othacehe 2019-05-06installer: Skip network selection dialogs when there is no choice....Previously, for a machine that only has wired networking, and only one such network, we'd have to go through two selection boxes. Now we just skip both. * gnu/installer/newt/ethernet.scm (run-ethernet-page): When 'ethernet-services' returns one element, return it directly without opening a listbox selection. * gnu/installer/newt/network.scm (run-technology-page): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-06installer: Shrink simple listboxes to their minimum height....* gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-partioning-page): Pass #:listbox-height. (run-scheme-page): Likewise. (run-device-page): Likewise. * gnu/installer/newt/network.scm (run-technology-page): Likewise. * gnu/installer/newt/ethernet.scm (run-ethernet-page): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-06installer: Do not sort methods on the partitioning page....* gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-partioning-page): Pass #:sort-listbox-items? #f so that methods always appear in the same order. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-06installer: Widen user dialog....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page)[pad-label]: Increase 2nd argument to 25. [entry-width]: Increase to 35. Ludovic Courtès 2019-05-05installer: Fix typo....* gnu/installer/newt/menu.scm (run-menu-page): Add missing space after period. Signed-off-by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> Miguel 2019-05-03installer: Do not sort the guided partition schemes in the selection page....Previously, the "Everything is one partition" entry would come first in English but it would be second in French. This change keeps it the first choice regardless of the language. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-scheme-page): Pass #:sort-listbox-items? to 'run-scheme-page'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-29installer: Fix typo in docstring....* gnu/installer/newt/wifi.scm (draw-scanning-page): Fix typo in docstring. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> Meiyo Peng 2019-04-28installer: Tell the user where the config file is....* gnu/installer/newt/final.scm (strip-prefix): New procedure. (run-config-display-page): Add a sentence showing where the config file is stored. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-28installer: Fix handling of user password mismatches....Previously, if we had a password mismatch, the 'password' field would end up containing a <user> record instead of the actual password. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (confirm-password): Make TRY-AGAIN optional and adjust docstring. (run-user-add-page): Move 'confirm-password' call one level higher. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-28installer: User accounts can now have a "real name."...* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page): Add #:real-name. Add a label and entry for the real name and initialize the 'real-name' field of the <user> record. * gnu/installer/final.scm (create-user-database): Set the 'comment' field of the <user-account> record. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-28installer: Improve layout of the partitioning page....Previously the "listbox" would be unnecessarily high, leaving too little space for the German translation of the text above. * gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-disk-page): Increase #:info-textbox-width and pass #:listbox-height. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-28installer: Recommended services are pre-selected....* gnu/installer/services.scm (<system-service>)[recommended?]: New field. * gnu/installer/newt/services.scm (run-desktop-environments-cbt-page): Pass #:selection to 'run-checkbox-tree-page', computed from the 'recommended?' field of each service. (run-networking-cbt-page): Likewise. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-28installer: Add #:selection parameter to 'run-checkbox-tree-page'....* gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (%none-selected): New variable. (run-checkbox-tree-page): Add #:selection. [fill-checkbox-tree]: Honor it. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-27installer: Add missing i18n in the partitioning pages....* gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (run-scheme-page): Add missing 'G_' for ITEMS. (run-partioning-page): Likewise. (run-partition-page): Move misplaced call to 'G_'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-26installer: Actually reboot when the user presses "Reboot."...* gnu/installer/newt/final.scm (run-install-success-page): Return 'success. * gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Check the result of the 'final step and reboot upon success. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Ask for confirmation of the user passwords....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page): Add #:name and #:home-directory and honor them. Add call to 'confirm-password'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Ask for confirmation of the root password....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (confirm-password): New procedure. (run-root-password-page): Add call to 'confirm-password'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Use FLAG-PASSWORD for the encryption passphrase confirmation....* gnu/installer/newt/partition.scm (prompt-luks-passwords) <password-confirm-page>: Pass #:input-flags to 'run-input-page'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Preserve order of user accounts....* gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-page): Add call to 'reverse'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Ask for the root account password....Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35399>. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-root-password-page): New procedure. * gnu/installer/user.scm (users->configuration): Filter out the "root" account. * gnu/installer/final.scm (create-user-database): Set 'uid' field in 'user-account' form. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: 'run-input-page' has a new #:input-flags parameter....* gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-input-page): Add #:input-flags and honor it. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Ask for user password and initialize /etc/shadow....Partly fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/35399>. * gnu/installer/user.scm (<user>)[password]: New field. * gnu/installer/final.scm (%seed): New variable. (integer->alphanumeric-char, random-string) (create-user-database): New procedures. (install-system): Call 'create-user-database'. * gnu/installer/newt/final.scm (run-install-shell): Add #:users and pass it to 'install-system'. (run-final-page): Pass #:users to 'run-install-shell'. * gnu/installer/newt/user.scm (run-user-add-page): Add password entry. Pass its result as the 'password' field of <user>. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-25installer: Add missing 'G_' for networking message....* gnu/installer/newt/network.scm (wait-technology-powered): Add missing 'G_'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-23installer: Run 'guix system init' with the right locale....* gnu/installer/utils.scm (run-shell-command): Add #:locale and honor it. * gnu/installer/newt/final.scm (run-install-shell): Add 'locale' parameter; pass it to 'install-system'. (run-final-page): Obtain locale from RESULT; pass it to 'run-install-shell'. * gnu/installer/final.scm (install-system): Add 'locale' parameter; pass it to 'run-shell-command'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Sort keyboard layouts according to language and translations....Previously, we would always (1) put English first, and (2) sort the other layouts based on their English description. This fixes both issues. * gnu/installer/newt/keymap.scm (sort-layouts)[layout<?]: New procedure. [preferred]: New variable. Partition according to both the 'name' and 'synopsis' fields. Sort both the main layouts and the other layouts according to 'layout<?'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Translate keyboard layout names....* gnu/installer.scm (installer-program)[installer-builder]: Call 'bindtextdomain' for "xkeyboard-config". * gnu/installer/newt/keymap.scm (run-keymap-page): Add calls to 'gettext'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Sort items with 'string-locale<?'....That way "Österreich" comes before "Schweiz" in a German locale (or pretty much any sane locale.) * gnu/installer/newt/page.scm (run-listbox-selection-page)[sort-listbox-items]: Use 'string-locale<?' instead of 'string<=?'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Look up timezone name translations in "iso_3166-1"....* gnu/installer/newt/timezone.scm (run-timezone-page): Add call to 'gettext' for timezone names. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Display language and territory names natively....* gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Add calls to 'bindtextdomain'. * gnu/installer/newt/locale.scm (run-locale-page) <language, territory>: Add calls to 'gettext'. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-17installer: Change language as soon as it has been chosen....Previously we'd call 'setlocale' only after the complete 'locale' step had finished. * gnu/installer/newt/locale.scm (run-language-page): Set the 'LANGUAGE' environment variable before returning. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-14installer: Force user to choose exactly one network management method....Previously, for non-desktop configs, users could choose any number of network management methods, including 0, 2, or more. * gnu/installer/newt/services.scm (run-networking-cbt-page): Remove 'network-management?' parameter and select only 'networking services. (run-network-management-page): New procedure. (run-services-page): Call it when DESKTOP is the empty list. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-07installer: Adjust welcome page message....* gnu/installer/newt/welcome.scm (run-welcome-page): Make the message less scary. Ludovic Courtès 2019-04-07installer: Internationalize service "names"....* gnu/installer/services.scm (%system-services): Mark networking service names with 'G_'. * gnu/installer/newt/services.scm (run-networking-cbt-page): Pass 'system-service-name' through 'G_'. Ludovic Courtès
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