Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:49:32AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 03:31:24PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: >> > I think we should go back to the "old way" of instructing users to copy >> > the file... >> > >> >> I'd argue it should point to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/... >> > >> > ... and make the service file execute this path. >> >> Could you send a patch? > > I've attached two patches. The first updates the instructions in the > manual, and the second builds the service files with the '/var/guix...' > path. > > From 62249ac64fb5cd0235bba28197cb7ac697719b83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> > Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:04:34 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Revert "doc: Symlink daemon start-up files." > > This reverts commit b7230de54b493da5a78922b4226255763b525a98. > > Versions of systemd that supported symlinked service files are not yet widely > deployed. > > See this thread for more information: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-01/msg01199.html
Could you add this reference in a @c comment in the .texi file? Otherwise LGTM! > From b79385c076ba4921fdf5f3ad2af76d3d171515c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> > Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:33:13 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] build: Don't embed absolute paths in .service and .conf > service files. > > Otherwise, users will be stuck running an old copy of guix and the guix-daemon > if they copy the service files instead of symlinking them. > > * etc/guix-daemon.conf.in, etc/guix-daemon.service.in, > etc/guix-publish.conf.in, > etc/guix-publish.service.in: Expand @localstatedir@ instead of @bindir@. > * nix/local.mk (etc/guix-%.service, etc/guix-%.conf): Use @localstatedir@ > instead of @bindir@. OK. Thanks for addressing this! Ludo’.
