Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:27:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> But wait: we can already store the config file in the instantiated
>> system! Here’s how:
>
> That is an exciting trick, thank you, Ludovic!
>
> As for making it a "default", this could be done in two ways:
> - Add it as a service to %base-services.
This wouldn’t be possible, at least not this easily, because the trick
requires the config file name, and that means it’d typically need to be
a macro used within the config file, like:
(define (%config-file-service file)
(simple-service 'config-file
etc-service-type
`(("config.scm" ,file))))
(define-syntax-rule (config-file-service)
(%config-file-service
(local-file (assoc-ref (current-source-location)
'filename))))
> - Add it to the configuration templates.
> I am more in favour of the first option, as it puts less clutter into
> the configuration file.
I’m a bit reluctant to make it part of ‘%base-services’ (if it were
technically possible) because that may deceive users, since it takes
more than this config file to reproduce a GuixSD config.
Ludo’.
