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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2017-10-31 21:38:21 +0100 |
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| committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2017-12-29 14:06:26 +0100 |
| commit | db8ed7cee81cbd60b0f8d89a7bee377b369fdac1 (patch) | |
| tree | a3064b58b63e0403abbea09589e6d72dd5c2547f /doc | |
| parent | 5859fd6c9ec14152cc2f342480ff45e29607eebc (diff) | |
services: networking: Add a dependency override mechanism to <static-networking>.
* gnu/services/networking.scm (<static-networking>)[requirement]: New field.
(static-networking-shepherd-service): Don't override requirement for loopback.
(static-networking-service): Expose 'requirement' parameter. Default to UDEV.
* gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services): Add (requirement '()) for loopback service.
* doc/guix.texi (Networking Services): Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index d925b4edac..ad018ffc8e 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10392,9 +10392,12 @@ This is the type for statically-configured network interfaces. @deffn {Scheme Procedure} static-networking-service @var{interface} @var{ip} @ [#:netmask #f] [#:gateway #f] [#:name-servers @code{'()}] + [#:requirement @code{'(udev)}] Return a service that starts @var{interface} with address @var{ip}. If @var{netmask} is true, use it as the network mask. If @var{gateway} is true, -it must be a string specifying the default network gateway. +it must be a string specifying the default network gateway. @var{requirement} +can be used to declare a dependency on another service before configuring the +interface. This procedure can be called several times, one for each network interface of interest. Behind the scenes what it does is extend |