Re: [PATCH 0/5] Update skarnet packages

[Eric Le Bihan]

Le Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:33:01 +0200,
Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> a écrit :

> > This small patch series updates the skalibs and execline packages
> > and adds new ones: s6, s6-dns and s6-networking.
> >
> > Eric Le Bihan (5):
> >   gnu: skalibs: Update to 2.3.10.0.
> >   gnu: execline: Update to 2.1.5.0.
> >   gnu: Add s6.
> >   gnu: Add s6-dns.
> >   gnu: Add s6-networking.  
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Looks like we are in similarly-shaped boats, I'm doing musl+sinit...
> :-)
> 
> Would you tell us a bit more on your usage of s6, how do you configure
> guixsd to use it, for example...
> 

I bumped/added these packages because I needed them to prototype
stuff. I've discovered Guix a few weeks ago and it is becoming the
easiest way for me to deploy the latest versions of some programs at
home and $DAY_JOB, where machines with various flavors of GNU/Linux are
used.

I haven't looked at GuixSD too deeply. Are you trying to use s6 as init
system for a Guix-based set-up? If so, I'll post a patch to add s6-rc
[1], the service manager for s6-based systems, to complete the skarnet
stack.

Note that the author of s6 only provides mechanisms for managing
services, not policies. So, you'll still need to write the later. You
may find more information and examples in my attempt to use s6 as init
for embedded systems [2].

[1] http://skarnet.org/software/s6-rc/
[2] https://github.com/elebihan/buildroot-s6

Best regards,
-- 
ELB