Re: [PATCH] services: Add rngd service.

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 02:16:23AM +0200, David Craven wrote:
> * gnu/services/base.scm (rngd-service): New service.
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (rng-tools): New package.

Thanks for taking this on!

Can you split this into 3 separate commits? One to alphabetize the
module imports in linux.scm, one to add rng-tools, and one to add
rngd-service?

Also, can you document the service in doc/guix.texi?

> +(define-public rng-tools

This package looks good to me, although I didn't try to build it yet.

> --- a/gnu/services/base.scm
> +++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>    #:use-module (gnu system mapped-devices)
>    #:use-module (gnu packages admin)
>    #:use-module ((gnu packages linux)
> -                #:select (eudev kbd e2fsprogs lvm2 fuse alsa-utils crda gpm))
> +                #:select (alsa-utils crda eudev e2fsprogs fuse gpm kbd lvm2 
> rng-tools))
>    #:use-module ((gnu packages base)
>                  #:select (canonical-package glibc))
>    #:use-module (gnu packages package-management)
> @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
>              gpm-service
>  
>              urandom-seed-service
> +            rngd-service

I will let someone with more experience writing services review this
part.