Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Kerberos client service.

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 02:09:17PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     John Darrington <address@hidden> skribis:
     
     > * doc/guix.texi (Kerberos Services)[Krb5 Service]: New subsubheading.
     > * gnu/services/kerberos.scm (krb5-service-type): New variable.
     
     Please mention the configuration.scm changes.

ok.
     
     > address@hidden Krb5 Service
     > +
     > +The krb5 service provides the configuration for Kerberos clients, using
     > +the MIT implementation of the Kerberos protocol address@hidden
     
     Please take into account my previous suggestions:
     
       https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-11/msg00922.html

ok
     
     
     Shouldn???t it be a single comma in @uref?  

I don't think so.  The Texinfo manual suggests, that in this case, the second 
arg
should be empty.
     
     >  (define (validate-configuration config fields)
     >    (for-each (lambda (field)
     >                (let ((val ((configuration-field-getter field) config)))
     > -                (unless ((configuration-field-predicate field) val)
     > +                (unless (or (not val) ((configuration-field-predicate 
field) val))
     >                    (configuration-field-error
     >                     (configuration-field-name field) val))))
     
     Here you???re assuming that when VAL is #f, it???s necessary invalid, an
     assumption that???s questionable and wasn???t made until now.

No.  I'm assuming the exact opposite, namely, that #f is a *valid* value.
     
     Can you instead change your own field predicate to do that?

I could do that, but then I'd be defining a lot of them which are substantially 
identical to existing ones - and below, you say that you don't want me to 
duplicate code ...
     
     > +
     > +(define (serialize-non-negative-integer field-name val)
     > +  (if val
     > +      (serialize-field* field-name val)))
     > +
     > +(define (serialize-integer field-name val)
     > +  (if val
     > +      (serialize-field* field-name val))
     
     No ???else??? here?  Looks like a bug.

No. The idea is, that if fields are #f then they output absolutely nothing.
     
     How much of this is copied from configuration.scm?  I don???t want
     duplicated code here.

Much of it was copied, but modified where appropriate.  None is identical
I don't think.
     
J'
     

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