Ludovic Courtès writes:

> "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/services/hurd.scm: New file.
>> * gnu/local.mk (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
>> * doc/guix.texi (Hurd Services): Document it.
>
> [...]

As discussed on IRC: dropped altogether, replaced with attached patch.

>> +@deffn {Scheme Procedure} hurd-etc-service @var{os}
>> +This service implements a minimal @code{etc-service}, adding some
>> +specifics for the Hurd.
>> +
>> +It is part of the @code{hurd-default-essential-services}.
>> +@end deffn
>
> The ‘hurd-default-essential-services’ bit is not in this patch, though.

Hmm.  I think it's complicated...No, it was complicated.  ETC depends on
%activatation which depends on %boot, but those now work; so I can
reorder!

Reordered, added to hurd-default-essential-services in compliance with
the documentation.

>> +;;; The ETC service for the Hurd.
>
> s/ETC/etc/

OK.  Eh... ok. ;-)

>> +(define (hurd-etc-service os)
[..]
>> +    (etc-service
>> +     `(("services" ,(file-append net-base "/etc/services"))
>> +       ("protocols" ,(file-append net-base "/etc/protocols"))
>> +       ("profile" ,profile)
>> +       ("hostname" ,(plain-file "hostname" (operating-system-host-name os)))
>> +       ("login" ,(file-append hurd "/etc/login"))
>> +       ("motd" ,(file-append hurd "/etc/motd"))))))
>
> Why again does it need to be different from that on GNU/Linux?

Good question!  Yeah...this started out as a more formalized copy of the
gnu/system/hurd.scm hack and it used to be complicated; services didn't
cross build, for example.

Also, it felt good to start really minimalistic, especially because of
the cross build troubles.

I seemed to remember that on top of that there was a Hurd build problem,
but I think that must have been sudo and it's easy to disable.

> Intuitively it should be the same, but it’s fine to keep this one,
> perhaps with a FIXME, until we’ve figured out what to do to use the same
> /etc service in both cases.

Phew, I didn't expect so much work; but also not so much cleanup so
soon.

Thanks, Janneke