Hi all,
For many services, extending the activation-service-type with a gexp
that can chown the necessary files is a good enough solution. This is
how I work around the problem of unstable uids/gids in my guix system
containers.
Regards,
Arun
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It may be useful to see what Nix does.
Nix has many static id, with the comment:
# IMPORTANT!
# We only add static uids and gids for services where it is not feasible
# to change uids/gids on service start, in example a service with a lot of
# files. Please also check if the service is applicable
If I understand correctly, the container script produced by "guix system
container" will allocate the same uid and gid for a service on each
execution, but only if the corresponding entry in the service list has the
same absolute position as it did before. I.e., if the services are
reordered or if
