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Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated syste
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system |
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Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:04:18 +0200 |
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Hi Mekeor,
(I think you forgot to Cc: the list.)
Mekeor Melire <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hello Guix!
>>
>> Following a discussion we had at the GHM today, here’s the tip of the
>> day!
>
> Greetings to everyone at GHM!
>
>> But wait: we can already store the config file in the instantiated
>> system! Here’s how:
>>
>> (operating-system
>> ;; …
>> (services (cons (simple-service 'store-my-config
>> etc-service-type
>> `(("config.scm"
>> ,(local-file (assoc-ref
>>
>> (current-source-location)
>> 'filename)))))
>> …)))
>>
>> You instantiate that, and then /etc/config.scm (aka.
>> /run/current-system/etc/config.scm,
>> aka. /var/guix/profiles/system/etc/config.scm) contains the config file.
>
> Because of the frequent demand for it, I think it would make sense to
> offer this as pre-defined service by default, as part of Guix itself.
> What do you think?
Why not, indeed. I think this would have to be a macro so that the
‘current-source-location’ trick works as expected, nothing
insurmountable.
Ludo’.
Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system, Alex Kost, 2017/08/28
Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system, Ricardo Wurmus, 2017/08/29
Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system, Andreas Enge, 2017/08/29