Andy Wingo <wi...@igalia.com> writes: > On Sun 26 Feb 2017 20:42, Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> writes: > >> * gnu/services/mail.scm (unix-listener-configuration)[path] >> (fifo-listener-configuration)[path]: Change type from 'file-name' to >> 'string'. >> * doc/guix.texi (Mail Services): Document it. > > Why's that? Is the extra checking from the file-name type (that the > string start with "/") getting in the way of something?
Yes, because the path is also used as the section name (see http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Services#Service_listeners). So for example, this code (from gnu/services/mail.scm:445) raises an error because "lmtp" doesn't start with "/": (service-configuration (kind "lmtp") (listeners (list (unix-listener-configuration (path "lmtp") (mode "0666"))))) I don't understand how it could work before. Maybe the check wasn't done.
