Re: Examples of local-host-entries or hosts-service-type?

[Bruno Victal]

On 2023-02-10 22:40, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> Hello Guix,
> 
> I am reconfiguring my system right now, and guix system reconfigure
> /etc/config.scm tells me this:
> 
> /etc/config.scm:126:27: warning: 'local-host-aliases' is deprecated, use 
> 'local-host-entries' instead
> /etc/config.scm:126:27: warning: 'local-host-aliases' is deprecated, use 
> 'local-host-entries' instead
> /etc/config.scm:124:14: warning: the 'hosts-file' field is deprecated, please 
> use 'hosts-service-type' instead
> 
> For the record, here are the lines guix system reconfigure is
> complaining about:
> 
> (hosts-file (plain-file "hosts"
>                       (string-append
>                        (local-host-aliases host-name)
>                        "some.ip.address.1 machine1\n"
>                        "some.other.ip.address machine2\n")))
> 
> I spent quite some time trying to find some examples of using
> local-host-entries or hosts-service-type, but I don't seem to find any
> mention of these.  Quite on the contrary, the Guix manual actually seems
> to advice declarations similar to those which I have in my
> /etc/config.scm.
> 
> Could someone point me to an example of how I should update
> my configuration?
> 
> -
> Sergiu
> 

See 'hosts-service-type' under Service Reference 
<https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html>.


Cheers,
Bruno