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

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hi Bruno, hi Remco,

Thank you very much for your suggestions!


Remco van 't Veer <remco@remworks.net> [2023-02-11T12:46:35+0100]:
> 2023/02/10 23:40, Sergiu Ivanov:
>>
>> Could someone point me to an example of how I should update
>> my configuration?
>
> In the guix manual I found this:
>
>   
> https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html#index-hosts_002dservice_002dtype
>
> So instead of using (hosts-file ..) you'll have to use
> (hosts-service-type ..) instead, as you already mentioned.  You'll end
> up with something like to following:
>
>   (operating-system
>     ;; ...
>
>     (essential-services
>      (modify-services
>          (operating-system-default-essential-services this-operating-system)
>        (hosts-service-type config =>
>                            (cons* (host "some.ip.address.1" "machine1")
>                                   (host "some.other.ip.address" "machine2")
>                                   (local-host-entries host-name)))))
>
>     ;; ...

Oh, thank you very much for the specific solution!  It worked for
me flawlessly.

Actually, where did you get local-host-entries from?  The documentation
page you and Bruno cite doesn't seem to ever mention this function :O
Unless I am looking at some old version of the docs.

> Also, I agree the documentation needs some love here.

I am willing to contribute.  What would be the best place to do changes
to the documentation?

I would follow this mini-roadmap:

1. Add the explanation of local-host-entries to
   
https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Service-Reference.html#index-hosts_002dservice_002dtype

2. Say here
   https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/operating_002dsystem-Reference.html
   that hosts-file is deprecated.

3. Update the examples here to use hosts-service-type instead of
   hosts-file: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html

What do you think?

I've never submitted a patch to Guix docs before, so all suggestions and
hints are welcome :-)

-
Sergiu