Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes: […]
>> It would be helpful to have a paragraph in the documentation how to >> override the Shepherd, and if you know a proper way, please add a small >> example of operating-system definition with overriden Shepherd and a >> basic service like OpenSSH. > > Yes, would be very helpful, especially as it's easy to get wrong. > I'm currently occupied with other things, though. If you don't mind I could push the following instruction:
From f94a63bb35f6f05bd429703ec3102d15cfb1e382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 01:49:00 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Explain how to set custom Shepherd package.
* doc/guix.texi (Shepherd Services): Give example on how to set custom
Shepherd package.
---
doc/guix.texi | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index aca4657d6a..76a4e55e50 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -32826,6 +32826,24 @@ mechanism instead (@pxref{Shepherd Services}).
@end table
@end deftp
+The following example specifies the Shepherd package for operating
+system:
+
+@lisp
+(operating-system
+ ;; ...
+ (services (append (list openssh-service-type))
+ ;; ...
+ %desktop-services)
+ ;; ...
+ ;; Use own Shepherd package.
+ (essential-services
+ (modify-services (operating-system-default-essential-services this-operating-system)
+ (shepherd-root-service-type config => (shepherd-configuration
+ (inherit config)
+ (shepherd my-shepherd))))))
+@end lisp
+
@defvr {Scheme Variable} %shepherd-root-service
This service represents PID@tie{}1.
@end defvr
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