Re: Announcing shepherd-run

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 04:57:09PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:19:04 +0200
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> wrote:
> 
> > Announcing the initial release of shepherd-run!
> > 
> > Do you have experience with systemd and systemd-run? Do you wish you
> > were able to quickly and easily add a simple service to your (user or
> > system) shepherd instance?
> > 
> > Using the finest technologies from the 70's, written in gawk, I
> > present shepherd-run!
> Is there any plans to integrate that with Guix and Shepherd later on?

If it proves to be useful I could see re-writing it in guile so it can
be part of shepherd directly.

> I'm thinking of uses cases like netctl which is an utility from Arch
> Linux that is present in Parabola. Users define network profiles and
> netctl somehow interact with systemd to setup the network.
> 
> Here for instance Guix system services or Guix home services are not
> dynamic, and especially for the network it could make sense to have
> different profiles.
> 
> As I understand netctl generates systemd unit files, so there is
> also some similarities between netctl and shepherd-run.
> 
> Denis.

Looking at some of the manpages for systemd I saw they have options for
on-joining or leaving certain networks and other triggers. I don't
believe shepherd currently has the ability to detect that directly
currently, but I suppose it would be possible to imitate that
functionality.


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