How to add service(s) from a service?

How to add service(s) from a service?

[Tomas Volf]

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Hi Guix,

I know that I can add services into my Guix configuration using this pattern:

    (operating-system
      ...
      (services (cons* SERVICE
                       %base-services)))

And for packages I can use this pattern:

    (operating-system
      ...
      (packages (cons* PACKAGE
                       %base-packages)))

Now, I would like to be able to do both from a service.  I now that the packages
I do using the profile-service-type, like this:

(define my-service-service-type
  (service-type
   (name 'my-service)
   (description "This is my service.")
   (extensions
    (list (service-extension profile-service-type (list PACKAGE))))
   (default-value (my-service-configuration))))

However, I am unsure how to do this for services.  Would anyone have any ideas
how to do this?

Thank you and have a nice day,
Tomas Volf

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Re: How to add service(s) from a service?

[paul]

Hello Tomas,

On 10/15/23 00:57, Tomas Volf wrote:
> However, I am unsure how to do this for services.  Would anyone have any ideas
> how to do this?

I may be wrong, I believe you can't add services from within a service 
but you can extend them (extension entails instantiation iiuc): so in 
your example SERVICE should expose an extension api and 
my-service-service-type should make use of it through a 
(service-extension ...) call.

Hope this helps,

giacomo