From: Attila Lendvai <attila@lendvai.name>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: [RFC] refactoring extra-special-file; an /etc/tmpfiles/ equivalent
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:29:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bnkFpeHl43kNvaDPIHgLNSRTi22q-vRS5Bp-2-fX3BuOXtYQYqRLYFicv8Pk6qRvMP7EORKlNxcIFNUHYIyK0J5U-Qe8b1Iy8TJn1mlHvus=@lendvai.name> (raw)
hello Guix,
context 1:
i want to write a string into a file at boot to disable wake-up by my keyboard (so that it doesn't immediately wake up my laptop after i suspend it). it requires doing this once per boot:
echo XHC >/proc/acpi/wakeup
the standard solution on systemd distros is to use a /etc/tmpfiles.d/disable-usb-wake.conf file, which systemd interprets (see e.g. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=312953).
context 2:
i need to create an empty directory in an image created by `guix system vm ...` (for "reasons"; this is the simplest way i'm aware of to hack forward).
in Guix we have extra-special-file (what a strange name!) that in fact can do one thing: a (single shot?) shepherd service that can symlink something somewhere.
what i need is something like extra-special-file, but with a few more keyword arguments that would allow creating empty directories, and appending/overwriting files with content given as literals.
or something else that i'm not aware of?
solution 1:
i think i could backwards compatibly extend extra-special-file with the keyword args.
solution 2:
introduce a new abstraction (preferrably with a better name), and mark extra-special-file obsolete.
dear maintainers, any thoughts on which way i should start digging?
also, any suggestion for the API? the naming of the keyword args?
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2023-01-21 15:29 Attila Lendvai [this message]
2023-02-10 12:05 ` [RFC] refactoring extra-special-file; an /etc/tmpfiles/ equivalent Attila Lendvai
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