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Subject: Re: Invoking user shepherd; Was: Re: Defining *user* services in Guix
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To: Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
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Hello!

Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com> skribis:

> I wrote a first draft of user services a month ago. The idea here is
> that guix user -r user-manifest.scm generates a script that lauches a
> user shepherd.
>
> For instance with the following user-manifest.scm :
>
> (define (redshift-service config)
>   (list (shepherd-service
>          (documentation "Run redshift.")
>          (provision '(redshift-test))
>          (requirement '())
>          (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor
>                    (list (string-append #$redshift "/bin/redshift")
>                          "-l" "48:2")))
>          (stop  #~(make-kill-destructor)))))
>
> (define redshift-service-type
>   (service-type
>    (name 'test-user)
>    (extensions
>     (list
>      (service-extension shepherd-user-service-type
>                         test-shepherd-service)))))
>
> (user-configuration
>  (services (list (service redshift-service-type #f))))
>
> I get a script that lauches shepherd himself starting redshift.

So you do =E2=80=9Cguix user user-manifest.scm=E2=80=9D and it generates sh=
epherd.conf
and spawns shepherd, right?  Sounds pretty cool!

> The plan here was to add a symlink, (don't know where !), pointing to
> the last generated shepherd script, and have the user start shepherd by
> executing the script pointed by the symlink in his .xinitrc for
> instance.

Maybe ~/.config/guix/services/start could be that symlink (and an
indirect GC root.)

Nice work!

Ludo=E2=80=99.