* gnu/services/base.scm (%default-console-font): New variable.
(console-font-shepherd-services): New procedure.
(console-font-service-type): Change to use 'service-type'.
(console-font-service): Rewrite using 'simple-service'.
(%base-services): Use a single CONSOLE-FONT-SERVICE-TYPE instance.
* gnu/system/install.scm (installation-services): Likewise.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/20067>.
Reported by Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@suse.cz>.
* gnu/system.scm (system-linux-image-file-name)
(operating-system-kernel-file): New procedures.
(operating-system-grub.cfg): Use 'operating-system-kernel-file' for the
'kernel' field of 'menu-entry'.
(operating-system-parameters-file): Likewise for the 'kernel' entry.
(read-boot-parameters): Adjust 'kernel' field so that it contains the
absolute file name of the image.
* gnu/system/grub.scm (grub-configuration-file)[linux-image-name]:
Remove.
[entry->gexp]: Assume LINUX is the absolute file name of the kernel
image.
* doc/guix.texi (GRUB Configuration): Add an example, and adjust
'kernel' field documentation accordingly.
* gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl: While it is currently
unknown if Bob has a brother, it is sufficiently documented that Alice
is, in fact, Bob's sister.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/24275>.
Reported by John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (%base-user-accounts):
Add (create-home-directory? #f) for "nobody".
* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (open-raid-device): Rename 'source' to
'sources'. Make 'waiting' message more informative.
(close-raid-device): Rename 'source' to 'sources'.
* gnu/system/pam.scm (<pam-limits-entry>): New record type.
(pam-limits-entry, pam-limits-entry->string): New procedures.
* gnu/services/base.scm (pam-limits-service-type): New variable.
(pam-limits-service): New procedure.
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document it.
Fixes <http://bugs.gnu.org/23971>.
Reported by Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@gmail.com>.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (%base-user-accounts): Add 'shell' field. Set
'home-directory' to "/nonexistent".
* gnu/services/shepherd.scm (<shepherd-service>)[imported-modules]:
Remove.
(%default-imported-modules): Make private.
(shepherd-service-file): Use 'with-imported-modules'.
(shepherd-configuration-file): Remove 'modules' and the calls to
'imported-modules' and 'compiled-modules'. Use
'with-imported-modules' instead.
* doc/guix.texi (Shepherd Services): Adjust accordingly.
* gnu/services/base.scm (file-system-shepherd-service): Use
'with-imported-modules'. Remove 'imported-modules' field.
* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (device-mapping-service-type): Remove
'imported-modules'.
(open-luks-device): Use 'with-imported-modules'.
* gnu/tests.scm (marionette-shepherd-service): Remove 'imported-modules'
field and use 'with-imported-modules'.
* gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Remove code to set '%load-path'
and use 'with-imported-modules' instead.
(cleanup-gexp): Likewise.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (%vm-module-closure): New variable.
(expression->derivation-in-linux-vm): Remove #:modules.
[loader]: Remove code to set '%load-path'.
[builder]: Use %VM-MODULE-CLOSURE.
(qemu-image): Use 'with-imported-modules'.
This fixes a regression introduced in
958dd3ce68.
* gnu/system/linux-container.scm (container-script)[script]: Add (guix
combinators) to the list of imported modules.
This reduces the size of the image produced by 'guix system vm' from
26 MiB to 9 MiB.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (system-qemu-image/shared-store):
(system-qemu-image/shared-store-script): Change the default
value of #:disk-image-size to 30 MiB when not FULL-BOOT?.
* guix/scripts/system.scm (system-derivation-for-action): Likewise for
the 'vm' action.
* gnu/system/mapped-devices.scm (device-mapping-service-type): Add
'modules' and 'imported-modules' fields to 'shepherd-service'.
(open-luks-device): Use 'find-partition-by-luks-uuid' to lookup the
partition when SOURCE is a bytevector.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (base-initrd): Augment 'use-modules'
form.
* doc/guix.texi (Mapped Devices): Give example with a UUID.
Suggested by Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>.
* gnu/system/install.scm (installation-services): Say 'beta' instead of
'alpha' and make the warning less scary.
