Re: GNU Shepherd 0.3 released

[Alex Sassmannshausen]

Congratulations to all involved, and for the new name.  I like it :-)

Alex

Ludovic Courtès writes:

> We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.3, the new alpha
> release of was used to be called GNU dmd.
>
>
> • About
>
>   The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd is a service manager written
>   in Guile that looks after the herd of system services.  It provides a
>   replacement for the service-managing capabilities of SysV-init (or any
>   other init) with a dependency-based system with a convenient
>   interface.  The GNU Shepherd may also be used by unprivileged users to
>   manage per-user daemons (e.g., tor, privoxy, mcron, etc.)  It is
>   written in Guile Scheme, and is configured and extended using Guile.
>
>   The GNU Shepherd is developed jointly with the GNU Guix project; it is
>   used as the init system of GuixSD, GNU’s advanced GNU/Linux distribution.
>
>   Before this release, the GNU Shepherd was known as GNU dmd, the
>   daemon-managing daemon.
>
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/
>
>
> • Download
>
>   Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
>     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/shepherd-0.3.tar.gz
>     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/shepherd-0.3.tar.gz.sig
>
>   Note: source code will eventually be available from
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/shepherd.
>
>   Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>     http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
>   Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:
>
>   f34cf481a8a7a557771799aea5f7a9a6  shepherd-0.3.tar.gz
>   16fab265a22a3d6dfe46fe172e0af388fa3be796  shepherd-0.3.tar.gz
>
>   [*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
>   .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
>   and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>     gpg --verify shepherd-0.3.tar.gz.sig
>
>   If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
>   then run this command to import it:
>
>     gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 3D9AEBB5
>
>   and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
>   This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>     Autoconf 2.69
>     Automake 1.15
>     Makeinfo 6.0
>     Help2man 1.47.3
>
>
> • Changes since version 0.2 (excerpt from the NEWS file)
>
>   ** GNU dmd becomes the GNU Shepherd
>
>   The GNU Shepherd herds your daemons!
>   See http://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/#history for details.
>   As a side effect, many incompatible changes were made:
>
>     - The ‘dmd’ command was renamed to ‘shepherd’.
>     - The ‘deco’ command was renamed to ‘herd’.
>     - The default system-wide config file is now /etc/shepherd.scm.
>     - The default per-user config file is now ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm.
>     - The special ‘dmd’ service is now called ‘root’ and ‘shepherd’.  Thus,
>       instead of:
>          deco load dmd foo.scm
>       you would now type:
>          herd load root foo.scm
>     - Guile modules now live in the (shepherd …) name space.
>
>   ** ‘herd status’ and ‘herd detailed-status’ assumes the ‘root’ service
>
>   That is, ‘herd status’ is equivalent to ‘herd status root’.
>
>   ** ‘herd help’ returns a meaningful help message
>   ** ‘shepherd’ stops itself when it receives SIGINT
>
>   This is what happens when ‘shepherd’ is running as PID 1 on GNU/Linux and
>   ctrl-alt-del is pressed (see ctrlaltdel(8)).
>
>   ** ‘halt’ and ‘reboot’ connect to the system socket unconditionally
>   ** ‘herd’ uses a non-zero exit code upon errors
>   ** The ‘root’ service has a new ‘eval’ action
>   ** Basic man pages are now provided
>   ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ has new #:group and #:user parameters
>   ** ‘make-forkexec-constructor’ has a new #:pid-file parameter
>   ** (shepherd services) now exports ‘make-actions’ and ‘provided-by’
>   ** ‘shepherd --pid=FILE’ writes FILE atomically
>   ** The communication protocol is now entirely sexp-based (see the manual)
>   ** ‘shepherd’ is more robust to misbehaving clients
>   ** Cross-compilation is now supported
>   ** The build system uses “silent rules” by default
>   ** Internally, the coding style of various parts has been improved
>
> Please report bugs to address@hidden
> Join address@hidden and address@hidden for discussions.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed!
>
>     19  Alex Kost
>      1  Andy Wingo
>      2  David Michael
>      3  David Thompson
>      1  Fabian Harfert
>     73  Ludovic Courtès
>     10  Mathieu Lirzin
>
> Ludovic.