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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-12-20 11:13:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-12-22 08:56:50 +0100 |
| commit | 8faaf8d7cc466c8caa55905798c9ff9aaad9a1c9 (patch) | |
| tree | b9cfa0813cb3caf4f45cfffd11c23e279b930ef5 /doc | |
| parent | 4e9fd50857a917ea30106262e356838c4f45b6ba (diff) | |
services: urandom-seed: Deprecate the 'urandom-seed-service' procedure.
* gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-service-type)[default-value]: New
field.
(urandom-seed-service): Mark as deprecated.
(%base-services): Use URANDOM-SEED-SERVICE-TYPE directly.
* gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services):
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document 'urandom-seed-service-type'
instead of 'urandom-seed-service'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index faad3ad6bb..94d4d8f92d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10031,12 +10031,12 @@ well as in the @var{groups} field of the @var{operating-system} record. @end example @end deffn -@deffn {Scheme Procedure} urandom-seed-service +@defvr {Scheme Variable} urandom-seed-service-type Save some entropy in @var{%random-seed-file} to seed @file{/dev/urandom} when rebooting. It also tries to seed @file{/dev/urandom} from @file{/dev/hwrng} while booting, if @file{/dev/hwrng} exists and is readable. -@end deffn +@end defvr @defvr {Scheme Variable} %random-seed-file This is the name of the file where some random bytes are saved by |