Re: Defining user services in Guix.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello Mathieu,

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Agreed.  A ‘guix user’ tool (or similar) could talk to the user’s
>> Shepherd instance to upgrade user services like
>> ‘upgrade-shepherd-services’ does in (guix scripts system).
>
> With the attached patch, it is possibe to use (gnu services herd) to
> interact with a user shepherd instance.
>
> For instance :
>
> (use-modules (gnu services herd))
> (parameterize
>  ((%shepherd-socket-file "/home/mathieu/.config/shepherd/run/socket"))
>  (current-services))
>
>
> Which returns :
>
> $1 = (#<<live-service> provision: (redshift) requirement: () running: 3632> 
> #<<live-service> provision: (root shepherd) requirement: () running: #t>)
>
> Based on that, I'll try to define a guix user command to upgrade user
> services if it is ok for everyone :).

Neat, sounds like a good plan!

Could you create an account on Savannah, add the OpenPGP public key
you’ll use to sign commits there, and let us know when you’re done with
a signed message?  Looks like we should be able to increase the
bandwidth.  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.