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@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ As the name implies, this option atomically upgrades all the packages installed in a profile or the set of packages matching a given regexp. See “Invoking guix package” in the manual. +*** New “guix package --search” option + +Performs a full text search in package synopses and descriptions, and returns +the matching packages in recutils format. See “Invoking guix package” in the +manual, for details. + *** New “guix pull” command The command pulls the latest version of Guix–both the package management @@ -36,8 +42,11 @@ modules and the distribution. See the manual for details. The “substituter” mechanism allows pre-built binaries to be transparently downloaded instead of performing a build locally. Currently binaries are -available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. See -the manual for details. +available for x86_64 Linux-based GNU systems from http://hydra.gnu.org. The +distribution is continuously built and binaries are made available from there. + +See http://hydra.gnu.org/jobset/gnu/master under “Job status” for the list of +available binary packages. *** New “guix refresh” command @@ -49,12 +58,17 @@ distribution to the latest upstream releases of GNU software. Convenience command to compute the hash of a file. See the manual for details. -*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS +*** Nix daemon code updated -It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. +The daemon code from Nix, used by the ‘guix-daemon’ command, has been updated +to current Nix ‘master’. ** Programming interfaces +*** (guix download) now supports HTTPS, using GnuTLS + +It allows package source tarballs to be retrieved over HTTPS. + *** New ‘native-search-path’ and ‘search-path’ package fields Packages can define in their ‘native-search-path’ field environment variables @@ -108,5 +122,5 @@ Coreutils 8.20, GDB 7.6, Texinfo 5.1. *** Noteworthy new packages -TeXLive, Xorg, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, CHICKEN, -Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. +TeXLive, Xorg, GNU GRUB, GNU Parted, QEMU and QEMU-KVM, Avahi, Bigloo, +CHICKEN, Scheme48, Hugs, Python, Lua, Samba. |