Howdy! zerodaysford...@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> zerodaysford...@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) skribis: >> >>> This issue is described in more detail at [1]. Essentially, 'guix >>> deploy' is will happily load and start new services, as well as unload >>> obsolete services, but does nothing to restart valid services that are >>> already running. >> >> That’s not a bug: ‘guix system reconfigure’ does not restart already >> running services, simply because it cannot tell whether now is a good >> time to restart them. It’s a decision that’s left to the system >> administrator. >> >> However, note that ‘guix system reconfigure’ loads “replacements” for >> each Shepherd service, such that next time you run ‘herd restart FOO’, >> you spawn that new version of FOO. >> >> Does that make sense? > > Yes, that does make sense. I suppose the way I worded the initial report > wasn't great; I opened this to track support for 'restart-strategy' as > described in #33508 in 'guix deploy'. This takes care of the question of > when a good time to restart the service would be. Oh, I see. To me that’s completely orthogonal to ‘guix deploy’ though, in that ‘guix system reconfigure’ and ‘guix deploy’ should use the same code for that. Thanks, Ludo’.
