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From: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36517: 'guix deploy' does not restart services
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 22:43:22 +0200
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To: "Jakob L. Kreuze" <zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Howdy!

zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis:
>>
>>> This issue is described in more detail at [1]. Essentially, 'guix
>>> deploy' is will happily load and start new services, as well as unload
>>> obsolete services, but does nothing to restart valid services that are
>>> already running.
>>
>> That=E2=80=99s not a bug: =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99 does=
 not restart already
>> running services, simply because it cannot tell whether now is a good
>> time to restart them.  It=E2=80=99s a decision that=E2=80=99s left to th=
e system
>> administrator.
>>
>> However, note that =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99 loads =E2=
=80=9Creplacements=E2=80=9D for
>> each Shepherd service, such that next time you run =E2=80=98herd restart=
 FOO=E2=80=99,
>> you spawn that new version of FOO.
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>
> Yes, that does make sense. I suppose the way I worded the initial report
> wasn't great; I opened this to track support for 'restart-strategy' as
> described in #33508 in 'guix deploy'. This takes care of the question of
> when a good time to restart the service would be.

Oh, I see.  To me that=E2=80=99s completely orthogonal to =E2=80=98guix dep=
loy=E2=80=99 though,
in that =E2=80=98guix system reconfigure=E2=80=99 and =E2=80=98guix deploy=
=E2=80=99 should use the same
code for that.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.