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* | | | | | | | | mapped-devices: Allow target to be list of strings.Mikhail Tsykalov2020-11-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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>
* | | | | | | | | doc: Fix a typo in WebSSH configuration documentation.Oleg Pykhalov2020-11-24
| |_|_|_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Fix a typo in webssh-configuration.
* | | | | | | | services: cups: Add Splix by default.Tobias Geerinckx-Rice2020-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * gnu/services/cups.scm (cups-configuration): Add splix to the default extensions. * doc/guix.texi (Printing Services): Document it.
* | | | | | | | gnu: Rename escpr to epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.Tobias Geerinckx-Rice2020-11-21
| |_|_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ‘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.
* | | | | | | gnu: vpn: Make ca, key and cert optional.Julien Lepiller2020-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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.
* | | | | | | services: cups: Add some extensions by default.Danny Milosavljevic2020-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * gnu/services/cups.scm (cups-configuration): Add some extensions by default. doc/guix.texi (Printing Services): Document the default value.
* | | | | | | doc: Add a backslash escape to the disk-image example.Maxim Cournoyer2020-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Add a backslash escape.
* | | | | | | guix: system: Make disk-image root file system non-volatile by default.Maxim Cournoyer2020-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* | | | | | | doc: Detail which bootloader get used with disk-image or vm-image.Maxim Cournoyer2020-11-17
| |_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix system): Extend doc.
* | | | | | doc: Add a note about SELinux relabeling after upgrades to guix-daemon.Daniel Brooks2020-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (SELinux Support): Add note about upgrades. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
* | | | | | doc: Remove superfluous comma.Matthew Kraai2020-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Managing Software the Guix Way): Remove comma. Signed-off-by: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
* | | | | | doc: Document hg-fetch.Holger Peters2020-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): Add documentation for hg-fetch. Signed-off-by: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
* | | | | | doc: Fix Guix Build Coordinator agent configuration defaults.Christopher Baines2020-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Guix Build Coordinator): Fix some guix-build-coordinator-agent-configuration defaults.
* | | | | | gnu: mingetty-shepherd-service: Make 'clear-on-logout' configurable.Mark H Weaver2020-11-11
| |_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* | | | | doc: Fix Zabbix ‘db-secret-file’ documentation.Tobias Geerinckx-Rice2020-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Monitoring Services): Clarify ‘db-secret-file’'s (lack of) structure and gexp support.
* | | | | services: Add yggdrasil-service-type.raingloom2020-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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>
* | | | | doc: Illustrate procedures that return packages.Ludovic Courtès2020-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Defining Package Variants): Illustrate procedures that return packages.
* | | | | doc: Use '@lisp' for 'options->transformation' example.Ludovic Courtès2020-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Defining Package Variants): Use @lisp for 'options->transformation' example.
* | | | | doc: Fix typo.Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas2020-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix publish)<cache-bypass-threshold>: The unit suffixes the numeric value.
* | | | | doc: Complete sentence in earlyoom-configuration doc.Maxim Cournoyer2020-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Linux Services): Complete sentence in earlyoom-configuration doc. Reported-by: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
* | | | | doc: Fix typo.Julien Lepiller2020-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (DNS Services): Fix typo.
* | | | | doc: Fix typo.Julien Lepiller2020-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Sound Services): Fix typo.
* | | | | doc: Add missing period at the end of the sentence.Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas2020-11-01
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* | | | | doc: Add "Defining Package Variants" section.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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'.
* | | | | services: guix-publish: Add 'cache-bypass-threshold' field.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a followup to ecaa102a58ad3ab0b42e04a3d10d7c761c05ec98. * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-publish-configuration>)[cache-bypass-threshold]: New field. (guix-publish-shepherd-service): Honor it.
* | | | | services: swap: Allow for UUIDs and file system labels.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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.
* | | | | scripts: lint: Add '--exclude' option.zimoun2020-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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>
* | | | | scripts: lint: Fix '--no-network' option.zimoun2020-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 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>
* | | | | doc: Fix claimed archive timestamps.Tobias Geerinckx-Rice2020-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
* | | | | publish: Add '--cache-bypass-threshold'.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * guix/scripts/publish.scm (show-help, %options): Add '--cache-bypass-threshold'. (low-compression): New procedure. (cache-bypass-threshold): New parameter. (bypass-cache?): New procedure. (render-narinfo/cached): Call 'render-narinfo' when 'bypass-cache?' returns true. (render-nar/cached): Call 'render-nar' when 'bypass-cache?' returns true. (guix-publish): Parameterize 'cache-bypass-threshold'. * tests/publish.scm ("with cache", "with cache, lzip + gzip") ("with cache, uncompressed"): Pass '--cache-bypass-threshold=0'. ("with cache, vanishing item"): Expect 200 for RESPONSE. ("with cache, cache bypass"): New test.
* | | | | doc: Update the PostgreSQL extension packages example.Christopher Baines2020-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (PostgreSQL): Update the extension packages example.
* | | | | doc: Use @code rather than @var for data type items.Christopher Baines2020-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the couple of cases where it's inconsistent. * doc/guix.texi (PostgreSQL, Sound Services): Replace @var with @code within data type sections.
* | | | | doc: Fix various minor typos.Lulu2020-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Top): Add end of line period to menu entry in the node listing. (Invoking guix time-machine): Remove duplicate word. (Invoking guix environment): As above. (PAM Mount Service): As above. (Running Guix in a Virtual Machine): Remove erroneous hyphen and duplicate word. Signed-off-by: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
* | | | | services: Add gmnisrv web service.Alexandru-Sergiu Marton2020-10-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * gnu/services/web.scm (<gmnisrv-configuration>): New record type. (%default-gmnisrv-config-file): New variable. (%gmnisrv-accounts, %gmnisrv-activation): New variables. (gmnisrv-shepherd-service): New procedure. (gmnisrv-service-type): New variable. * doc/guix.texi (Web Services): Document it. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
* | | | | doc: Document the postgresql-config-file.Christopher Baines2020-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (PostgreSQL): Document the postgresql-config-file record.
* | | | | doc: Add "Getting Substitutes from Other Servers" section.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Getting Substitutes from Other Servers): New node. (Invoking guix-daemon): Add cross-reference. (Substitute Server Authorization): Clarify that this is unnecessary on Guix System. (Invoking guix publish): Add cross-reference.
* | | | | services: guix: Make /etc/guix/acl really declarative by default.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/39819>. Reported by Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>. * gnu/services/base.scm (substitute-key-authorization): Symlink DEFAULT-ACL to /etc/guix/acl unconditionally. Add code to optionally back up /etc/guix/acl if it was possibly modified by hand. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Clarify the effect of setting 'authorize-keys?' to true. Mention the backup. Give an example showing how to authorize substitutes from another server.
* | | | | git: Require Guile-Git 0.3.0 or later.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * guix/git.scm (auth-supported?): Remove. (clone*): Inline code that was dependent on AUTH-SUPPORTED?. (update-cached-checkout): Likewise. (resolve-reference): Remove check for 'object-lookup-prefix' and use it unconditionally. (load-git-submodules): Remove. (update-submodules): Use 'repository-submodules', 'submodule-lookup', etc. unconditionally. (update-cached-checkout): Use 'repository-close!' unconditionally. * m4/guix.m4 (GUIX_CHECK_GUILE_GIT): New macro. * configure.ac: Use it and error out when it fails. * doc/guix.texi (Requirements): Bump to Guile-Git 0.3.0.
* | | | | doc: Move documentation of singularity-service-type.Ricardo Wurmus2020-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/44126>. * doc/guix.texi: Move documentation of singularity-service-type from "Auditd Service" heading to "Docker Service" heading.
* | | | | doc: Capitalize "Hurd" in 'operating-system' reference.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (operating-system Reference): Capitalize "Hurd".
* | | | | doc: Add an entry for the 'keyboard-layout' procedure.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout): Add @deffn entry for 'keyboard-layout'.
* | | | | doc: Fix typo in 'avahi-service-type' description.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Change "zero-configuration" to "avahi-configuration".
* | | | | doc: Fix typo in 'git-fetch' description.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (origin Reference): Replace "git-download" with "git-fetch" in one sentence.
* | | | | services: databases: Don't specify a default postgresql version.Christopher Baines2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, if the postgresql package major version changes, this is going to break the service upon upgrade, because PostgreSQL will reject the data files from the differing major version of the service. Because it's important to either keep running a particular major version, or intentionally upgrade, I think the configuration would be better with no default. I think this is also going to be helpful when trying to assist users upgrading PostgreSQL. * gnu/services/databases.scm (<postgresql-configuration>): Remove default for postgresql. (postgresql-service-type): Remove the default value. * gnu/tests/databases.scm (%postgresql-os): Update accordingly. * gnu/tests/guix.scm (%guix-data-service-os): Update accordingly. * gnu/tests/monitoring.scm (%zabbix-os): Update accordingly. * gnu/tests/web.scm (patchwork-os): Update accordingly. * doc/guix.texi (PostgreSQL): Update accordingly.
* | | | | services: databases: Deprecate the postgresql-service procedure.Christopher Baines2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using the service type directly is a better approach, making it easier to configure the service. * gnu/services/databases.scm (postgresql-service): Deprecate this procedure. * doc/guix.texi (PostgreSQL): Update the documentation for the use of (service postgresql-service-type).
* | | | | doc: Add subheadings in to the Databases section.Christopher Baines2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make it clearer where the relevant documentation for a particular service starts and ends. * doc/guix.texi (Database Services): Add subheadings.
* | | | | guix build: Move package transformation options behind '--help-transform'.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change declutters the '--help' output. * guix/scripts/build.scm (show-build-options-help) (%standard-build-options): Add '--help-transform'. (show-transformation-options-help): Make private. (show-help): Remove call to 'show-transformation-options-help'. * guix/scripts/build.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/environment.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/graph.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/install.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/pack.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/package.scm (show-help): Likewise. * guix/scripts/upgrade.scm (show-help): Likewise. * doc/guix.texi (Package Transformation Options): Mention '--help-transform'.
* | | | | guix build: Add '--with-debug-info'.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * guix/scripts/build.scm (transform-package-with-debug-info): New procedure. (%transformations): Add 'with-debug-info'. (%transformation-options, show-transformation-options-help): Add '--with-debug-info'. * tests/scripts-build.scm ("options->transformation, with-debug-info"): New test. * doc/guix.texi (Package Transformation Options): Document '--with-debug-info'. (Installing Debugging Files): Introduce sections. Remove bit about eventual "opt-out" since this is not happening. Document '--with-debug-info' under "Rebuilding with Debugging Info".
* | | | | doc: Replace @example with @lisp in "Build Phases".Ludovic Courtès2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (Build Phases): Use @lisp for second example.
* | | | | doc: More uses of @lisp instead of @example.Ludovic Courtès2020-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Use @lisp for 'let-system' example. * doc/contributing.texi (Synopses and Descriptions): Use @lisp for second example.