[bug#28128] [PATCH] scripts: system: Add support for container network sharing.

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi Arun,

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> skribis:

>>   a. Add in (gnu services) an ‘hosts-database-service-type’ that would
>>      take could be extended with IP/name pairs that it would put in
>>      /etc/hosts.
>>
>>   b. Have ‘essential-services’ extend ‘hosts-database-service-type’.
>>
>> In the container-with-shared-network case we’d arrange to not extend
>> ‘hosts-database-service-type’, which would thus not produce /etc/hosts.
>
> How would we arrange to not extend `hosts-database-service-type' in the
> container-with-shared-network case? Wouldn't such an arrangement still
> require us to pass #:container-shared-network? to `essential-services'?

Oh, hmm, good point.

Perhaps ‘essential-services’ could check whether
‘hosts-database-service-type’ is part of the
‘operating-system-user-services’.

If it is, it would extend it; if not, it would do nothing.

‘hosts-database-service-type’ would be part of ‘%base-services’, but
in the container-with-shared-network case, we’d remove it (in a
procedure similar to ‘virtualized-operating-system’.)

How does that sound?

Thanks,
Ludo’.