From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
Subject: Re: SSH service for Guix Home
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:43:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtktw0dj.fsf@yoctocell.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilvidi35.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi,
Am Montag, der 20. Dezember 2021, um 23:31 +012, schrieb Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
> I think we need to come to a shared understanding of what the next steps
> are. Once we have that, we can clarify the current status in the manual
> and release announcement, and open issues so that anyone who’d like to
> contribute knows where to look at.
Yeah, maybe we could create a bug report listing all the things that
should be done/fixed before we start adding too many new home services?
>> I think one of the problems is that there is not really any style guide
>> for now to write services (I do have a WIP patch in my local tree that
>> will document most of (gnu services configuration) though :-)).
>
> I see you’ve sent it in the meantime, neat!
Andrew also sent a patch that provides some guidelines for how to write
services[1], in case you haven’t seen it already.
>> We also lack a way to properly test home services; we would need
>> something similar to what Nix Home-manager has[1][2].
>>
>> [1]: Nix code for configuring a program
>> <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/tests/modules/programs/git/git.nix>
>> [2]: Expected content of the serialized configuration
>> <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/blob/master/tests/modules/programs/git/git-expected.conf>
>
> OK. Given that ‘define-configuration’ works at a “meta” level, I wonder
> if we could have tests that are less boring than this.
What exactly do you mean by “meta” level? Do you have anything
particular in mind regarding the tests?
[1]: <https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/87h7b2b6n3.fsf@trop.in/>
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-15 17:59 SSH service for Guix Home Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-16 15:43 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-12-20 22:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-17 14:21 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-12-20 10:40 ` Andrew Tropin
2021-12-22 7:42 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-12-20 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-22 7:43 ` Xinglu Chen [this message]
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