linux-initrd: Improve root file system switching.
* guix/build/linux-initrd.scm (move-essential-file-systems,
switch-root): New procedures.
(MS_MOVE): New variable.
(boot-system): Remove 'mount-essential-file-systems' call for ROOT.
Use 'switch-root' instead of chdir + chroot.
services: networking: Fix typo in static networking service.
* gnu/services/networking.scm (static-networking-service): Use
$inetutils/bin/ifconfig, not $inetutils/sbin/ifconfig.
gnu: Add missing import in (gnu packages maths).
* gnu/packages/maths.scm: Use (guix utils), which was needed since
b9100e2f.
linux-initrd: Check the root and other early file systems.
* gnu/system.scm (operating-system-derivation)[boot-file-systems]: Keep "/".
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (file-system->spec): Keep the 'check?'
flag.
(qemu-initrd)[helper-packages]: New variable. Pass it as #:to-copy.
<gexp>: Add 'set-path-environment-variable' call. Remove #:unionfs
argument for 'boot-system'.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (%linux-vm-file-systems): Add 'check?' field/
(virtualized-operating-system): Likewise for the "9p" file system.
* guix/build/linux-initrd.scm (mount-root-file-system): Change #:unionfs
default. Call 'check-file-system' before mounting ROOT, when
VOLATILE-ROOT? is false.
(check-file-system): New procedure.
(mount-file-system): Honor 'check?' element in list; add
'check-file-system' call.
(boot-system): Remove #:root-fs-type and #:unionfs parameters.
[root-mount-point?, root-fs-type]: New variables.
Call 'mount-file-system' on all MOUNTS but "/".
activation: Fix deletion of setuid programs.
* guix/build/activation.scm (activate-setuid-programs): When
%SETUID-DIRECTORY exists, pass the right file names to 'delete-file'.
gnu: Add statically-linked versions of e2fsprogs and the fsck.* commands.
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (e2fsprogs/static, e2fsck/static): New
variables.
vm: Provide a root partition for the freestanding VM image.
Fixes a regression introduced in 83bcd0b.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image): Override the 'file-systems'
field of OS. Add #:file-system-type parameter and honor it.
vm: Make root file system type a parameter, and default to ext4.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (qemu-image): Add #:file-system-type parameter.
Pass it to 'initialize-hard-disk'.
* guix/build/linux-initrd.scm (mount-root-file-system): Always honor
TYPE.
(boot-system): Change #:root-fs-type to default to "ext4". Update
docstring.
* guix/build/vm.scm (initialize-hard-disk): Remove #:mkfs parameter; add
#:file-system-type. Adjust 'mkfs' invocation and 'mount' call to
honor #:file-system-type.
doc: Minor improvements in "G-Expressions".
* doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Show coreutils version number in store
file name. Add xref to "Derivations", in documentation of
'gexp->derivation'. Fix typo.
gnu: Add diffstat.
* gnu/packages/version-control.scm (diffstat): New variable.
ftp-client: Add missing CR in "USER" command.
* guix/ftp-client.scm (%ftp-login): Add #\return before #\newline.
Fixes access to some FTP servers, such as
ftp://invisible-island.net ("ProFTPD 1.3.4a Server").
system: Add first-class file system declarations.
* gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>)[initrd]: Default to
'qemu-initrd'.
(<file-system>): New record type.
(operating-system-root-file-system): New procedure.
(operating-system-derivation): Take the device name for GRUB from
'operating-system-root-file-system'. Pass the
'operating-system-initrd' procedure the list of boot file systems.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (file-system->spec): New procedure.
(qemu-initrd): Add 'file-systems' parameter, and remove #:mounts
parameter.
[file-system-type-predicate]: New procedure.
[linux-modules]: Use it.
Adjust #:mounts argument in 'boot-system' call.
(gnu-system-initrd): Remove.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (%linux-vm-file-systems): New variable.
(expression->derivation-in-linux-vm): Adjust call to 'qemu-initrd'.
(virtualized-operating-system): New procedure.
(system-qemu-image/shared-store-script)[initrd]: Remove. Use
'virtualized-operating-system'. Get the 'initrd' file from OS-DRV.
* guix/build/linux-initrd.scm (mount-qemu-smb-share, mount-qemu-9p):
Remove.
(MS_RDONLY, MS_BIND): New global variables.
(bind-mount): Remove local 'MS_BIND' definition.
(mount-root-file-system): New procedure, with code formerly in
'boot-system'.
(mount-file-system): New procedure.
(boot-system): Add #:root-fs-type parameter. Remove 'MS_RDONLY' local
variable. Use 'mount-root-file-system' and 'mount-file-system'.
* doc/guix.texi (Using the Configuration System): Add 'file-system'
declaration.
gnu: Add missing copyright line
* gnu/packages/maths.scm: Add copyright line missing from 3de01d3.
gnu: petsc: Add input superlu.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (petsc): Configure with superlu support.
gnu: Add superlu
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (superlu): New variable
gnu: qemu: Upgrade to 2.0.0.
* gnu/packages/qemu.scm (qemu-headless): Upgrade to 2.0.0.
download: Rewrite using gexps.
* guix/download.scm (gnutls-derivation): Remove.
(gnutls-package): New procedure.
(url-fetch): Rewrite using 'gexp->derivation'.
monads, gexp: Remove unintended dependency on (gnu packages …).
* guix/gexp.scm (gexp->derivation, gexp->script): Use 'default-guile'
instead of an explicit reference to 'guile-final'.
(default-guile): New procedure.
* guix/monads.scm (run-with-store)[default-guile]: New procedure.
Use it.
gexp: Add support for 'origin?' objects in 'ungexp' forms.
* guix/gexp.scm (lower-inputs, gexp-inputs, gexp->sexp,
canonicalize-reference): Add 'origin?' case.
* guix/monads.scm (origin->derivation): New procedure.
* tests/gexp.scm ("one input origin"): New test.
system: Add 'sudo' to the setuid programs, and handle /etc/sudoers.
* gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>)[groups]: Change default to just
the 'root' group.
[sudoers]: New field.
(etc-directory): Add #:sudoers parameter. Add 'sudoers' to the
file union.
(operating-system-etc-directory): Pass #:sudoers to 'etc-directory'.
(%setuid-programs): Add 'sudo'.
(%sudoers-specification): New variable.
* gnu/system/linux.scm (base-pam-services): Add 'sudo'.
* build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm: Add 'groups' field; add 'guest' to the
'wheel' group.