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 bug-g...@gnu.org. > Join guix-de...@gnu.org and gnu-system-disc...@gnu.org 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.