From: Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in>
To: "Xinglu Chen" <public@yoctocell.xyz>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: SSH service for Guix Home
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 13:40:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf0fimpf.fsf@trop.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dc3jor3.fsf@disroot.org>
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On 2021-12-17 15:21, Xinglu Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 15 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> One service I miss for Guix Home is ‘home-ssh-service-type’, which is in
>> the “original” Guix Home.
>>
>> Could you contribute a patch adding it? (I could do it on your behalf,
>> but it sounds more logical to let you handle it.)
>
> Being the original author, I will hopefully try to work on it soon. :-)
>
It works for me. Would be very glad if you accomplish it.
>> Also, could you (or Xinglu, or Oleg) write a blog post for
>> guix.gnu.org, targeting an audience who’s not familiar with this kind
>> of tool, making it clear what the rationale is and what it can bring
>> to “normal users”? It would be really helpful to have that published
>> within a couple of weeks or so, before the next release.
>
> That sounds like a good idea, I would be happy to help!
>
I will make a patch with skeleton of the post and will send it to you
and mailing list for review and discussion. I think it is the easiest
way to cooperate on a blog post.
>> Last, it’d be great to see the three of you (and more people!) back in
>> action regarding Guix Home. I understand that life sometimes gets in
>> the way, but it seems that there’s been some confusion as to how to go
>> forward—e.g., <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/51359#2>—which may partly
>> explain why things stalled. If there are patches waiting for review,
>> also don’t hesitate to ping!
>
> Yeah, apologies for not being very active in the last few months.
>
> 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 :-)). 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>
>
Yep, having a workflow for writing guix service's tests will be also
cool. I see a few files in test/services/, but it doesn't seem to have
a well-established approach, just a few functional tests.
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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-20 15:41 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2021-12-22 7:42 ` Xinglu Chen
2021-12-20 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-12-22 7:43 ` Xinglu Chen
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