Re: [PATCH] gnu: services: Activate system prior to services

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:

> This patch fixes some issues I've had with the postgresql service and database
> locales. If system activation takes place before service activation, the
> locales are present and PostgreSQL can use them, but otherwise the PostgreSQL
> service is limited in the locales that can be used.

Oh, so “initdb” used to be run under the C locale, right?

> * gnu/services.scm: Activate the current system prior to the services,
>   as this allows the services to use the files from the system, for
>   example locales, in the service activation process.

I’ve added part of this justification as a comment in the code and
tweaked the commit log.

Pushed, thanks!

Ludo’.