Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> writes: > 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.
Well, maybe here "lmtp" is not the section name, but the path, relative to "base_dir". Sould I update the documentation to specify that "path" may be relative to "base_dir" too? But anyway there's still the bug, because relative paths don't start with "/".
