branch core-updates updated (9e12bc3 -> 933204e)

[Mark H. Weaver]

mhw pushed a change to branch core-updates
in repository guix.

      from  9e12bc3   gnu: gnome-vfs: Expect 'test-async-cancel' failure, and 
clean up.
       new  9128e32   gnu: icecat: Use system sqlite.
      adds  2784a65   gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.0
      adds  8214b7f   gnu: rseqc: Update hash.
      adds  1bef37e   gnu: emacs: Do not keep references to the entries of the 
build-time $PATH.
      adds  463acb4   gnu: ruby: Update to 2.2.2.
      adds  46a1130   gnu: linux-libre: Remove linux-libre-vblank-fix.patch.
      adds  6915912   gnu: Add mdadm.
      adds  d5f01e4   guix package: Add '--do-not-upgrade' option.
      adds  04a20db   gnu: gst-libav: Use system ffmpeg instead of bundled 
libav.
      adds  c3768fa   gnu: calibre: Update to 2.23.0.
      adds  a84e523   build: Silence warnings about 'make' portability.
      adds  9d3fb6c   install: Add a procedure to build a self-contained binary 
tarball.
      adds  a0bcaef   Thank Pjotr.
      adds  890024c   gnu: Don't use #:prefix in (gnu packages sdl).
      adds  b607593   hydra: Add jobs for the self-contained tarball.
      adds  8bc35f8   build: Add missing 'make-binary-tarball.scm' script.
      adds  a8bd3e5   gnu: calibre: Update to 2.24.0.
      adds  e46d517   gnu: icedtea6: Update to 1.13.7.
      adds  aa46a02   profiles: Generalize "hooks" for 'profile-derivation'.
      adds  09722b1   doc: Add section on installation from a binary tarball.
      adds  945e9c0   gnu: mu: Update to 0.9.12.
      adds  4f2bde4   gnu: tbb: Set library rpath.
      adds  f571e1c   gnu: Add libgtextutils.
      adds  2127ced   gnu: Add FASTX Toolkit.
      adds  78dc449   gnu: gnumach-headers: Update to 1.5
      adds  41d9c5d   gnu: hurd-headers: Update to 0.6
      adds  d67513f   gnu: mig: Update to 1.5
      adds  007aa90   gnu: linux-libre: Set CONFIG_DEVMEM=y
      adds  3c9e35c   gnu: Add libsrtp.
      adds  8e974b9   system: Populate /etc/shells with the list of all the 
shells in use.
      adds  5e25ebe   services: Explicitly refer to Shadow when requiring the 
'nologin' shell.
       new  933204e   Merge branch 'master' into core-updates

The 2 revisions listed above as "new" are entirely new to this
repository and will be described in separate emails.  The revisions
listed as "adds" were already present in the repository and have only
been added to this reference.


Summary of changes:
 Makefile.am                                       |    8 +
 THANKS                                            |    1 +
 build-aux/hydra/gnu-system.scm                    |   26 +++
 build-aux/make-binary-tarball.scm                 |   50 +++++
 configure.ac                                      |    2 +-
 doc/guix.texi                                     |   90 +++++++++-
 gnu-system.am                                     |    2 +-
 gnu/build/install.scm                             |   43 +++++-
 gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm                   |   35 ++++-
 gnu/packages/ebook.scm                            |    4 +-
 gnu/packages/emacs.scm                            |    3 +-
 gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm                         |    7 +-
 gnu/packages/gstreamer.scm                        |    8 +-
 gnu/packages/hurd.scm                             |   14 +-
 gnu/packages/java.scm                             |    8 +-
 gnu/packages/linux-libre-i686.conf                |  200 +++++++++++++++-----
 gnu/packages/linux-libre-x86_64.conf              |  204 ++++++++++++++++-----
 gnu/packages/linux.scm                            |   49 +++++-
 gnu/packages/mail.scm                             |    4 +-
 gnu/packages/patches/emacs-exec-path.patch        |   18 ++
 gnu/packages/patches/linux-libre-vblank-fix.patch |  175 ------------------
 gnu/packages/ruby.scm                             |    4 +-
 gnu/packages/tbb.scm                              |    7 +-
 gnu/packages/telephony.scm                        |   24 +++
 gnu/packages/textutils.scm                        |   31 +++
 gnu/services/avahi.scm                            |    3 +-
 gnu/services/dbus.scm                             |    3 +-
 gnu/services/networking.scm                       |    4 +-
 gnu/system.scm                                    |   45 ++++--
 gnu/system/install.scm                            |   39 ++++-
 guix/profiles.scm                                 |   72 +++-----
 guix/scripts/package.scm                          |   26 +++-
 tests/packages.scm                                |    4 +-
 tests/profiles.scm                                |    8 +-
 34 files changed, 838 insertions(+), 383 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 build-aux/make-binary-tarball.scm
 create mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/emacs-exec-path.patch
 delete mode 100644 gnu/packages/patches/linux-libre-vblank-fix.patch