gnu-maintenance: Improve 'official-gnu-packages'; add related procedures.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (http-fetch): Return an input port.
(<gnu-package-descriptor>): Add it.
(official-gnu-packages): Use <gnu-package-descriptor>.
(find-packages): Add it.
(gnu-package?): Adjust accordingly.
Add (guix build-system cmake).
* guix/build/cmake-build-system.scm, guix/build-system/cmake.scm: New files.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them.
download: Remove unreliable GNU mirror.
* guix/download.scm (%mirrors)[gnu]: Remove ftp.chg.ru.
store: Really disable file name canonicalization for derivation inputs.
* guix/store.scm (write-contents)[call-with-binary-input-file]: Set
%FILE-PORT-NAME-CANONICALIZATION to #f.
* gnu/packages.scm (search-patch, search-bootstrap-binary): Leave
%FILE-PORT-NAME-CANONICALIZATION unchanged. This reverts 9776ebb.
store: Use `sendfile' when available.
* guix/store.scm (write-contents)[call-with-binary-input-file]: New
procedure.
Use `sendfile' instead of `dump' when available. Add `size'
parameter.
(write-file): Update caller.
guix package: Report packages to be removed/installed.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (guix-package)[process-actions](show-what-to-remove/install):
New procedure.
Call it before `show-what-to-build'.
derivations: Optimize `build-expression->derivation'.
This reduces the execution time of
"guix build -e '(@ (gnu packages emacs) emacs)' -d" by 6%, from
1.15s to 1.08s.
* guix/derivations.scm (build-expression->derivation): Write the builder
as UTF-8.
derivations: Optimize `write-derivation'.
This reduces the execution time of
"guix build -e '(@ (gnu packages emacs) emacs)' -d" by 25%, from
1.54 s. to 1.15s.
* guix/derivations.scm (write-sequence, write-list, write-tuple): New
procedures.
(write-derivation)[list->string, write-list]: Remove.
[write-string-list, write-output, write-input, write-env-var]: New helpers.
Rewrite in terms of these new helpers.
guix package: Gracefully handle `official-gnu-packages' failure.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (http-fetch): Error out when DATA is #f.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (check-package-freshness): Wrap
`gnu-package?' call in `false-if-exception'.
Reported by Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@gmail.com>.
ui: Gracefully report failures to connect to the daemon.
* guix/store.scm (&nix-connection-error): New condition type.
(open-connection): Translate `system-error' during the `connect' call
into `&nix-connection-error'.
* guix/ui.scm (call-with-error-handling): Add case for `nix-connection-error?'.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (guix-package): Move `open-connection' call
within `with-error-handling'.
* guix/scripts/pull.scm (guix-pull): Likewise.
* guix/scripts/download.scm (guix-download): Move body within
`with-error-handling'.
packages: Remove the default value for `license'.
* guix/packages.scm (<package>): Remove the default value for `license'.
* gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (package-from-tarball,
%bootstrap-glibc, %bootstrap-gcc): Initialize `license'.
* tests/packages.scm (dummy-package): Likewise.
utils: Add 'wrap-program'.
* guix/build/utils.scm (wrap-program): New procedure.
licenses: Add 'x11-style'.
* guix/licenses.scm (x11-style): New variable.
gnu-maintenance: Clarify `releases'.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (releases): Change to use `match' and
`match-lambda'. Add `release-file' auxiliary function.
gnu-maintenance: Fix `gnu-package?' for packages lacking a `source'.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (gnu-package?): Support PACKAGE when its
source is #f.
guix package: Recover from freshness check transient errors.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (check-package-freshness): Ignore
`getaddrinfo-error' and `ftp-error' exceptions.
guix package: Inform about new upstream versions of GNU packages.
* guix/gnu-maintenance.scm (gnu-package?): New procedure.
* guix/scripts/package.scm (waiting): New macro.
(check-package-freshness): New procedure.
(guix-package)[process-actions]: Use it.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Mention the feature.
gnu: Add intltool.
* guix/download.scm (%mirrors): Add `gnome' mirrors.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (intltool): New variable.
Add (guix build-system perl).
* guix/build-system/perl.scm, guix/build/perl-build-system.scm: New files.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them.
* guix/build-system/gnu.scm (standard-inputs): Make public.