services: console-font: Don't emit the IUTF8 console code. Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/30505>. * gnu/services/base.scm (unicode-start): Remove 'display' call to FD for "\x1b%G" console code.
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services: mingetty: Move tty optionality to agetty. Follow-up to 5a9902c8acd63916c6c80cf3c61be6ee814b7e3d. * gnu/services/base.scm (mingetty-shepherd-service): Move tty optionality check to... (agetty-shepherd-service): ...here.
services: agetty: Add agetty instance to base services. Make its tty optional. * gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services): Instantiate agetty-service. (default-serial-port): New variable. (agetty-shepherd-service): Make tty optional, default to the above. * doc/guix.texi (agetty-configuration): Update "tty" documentation. * gnu/system/install.scm (agetty-default-service): Delete variable. (embedded-installation-os): Remove agetty-default-service instance. Add "console" kernel-argument.
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services: guix: Add 'chroot-directories' field. * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-configuration>)[chroot-directories]: New field. (guix-shepherd-service): Honor it. (references-file): New procedure. (guix-service-type)[compose, extend]: New fields.
services: guix: Add 'log-compression' option. * gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-configuration>)[log-compression]: New field. (guix-shepherd-service): Use 'match-record' instead of 'match'. Honor 'log-compression'. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document 'log-compression'.
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into core-updates
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.
services: urandom-seed: Depend on udev. Suggested by Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>. * gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-shepherd-service): Add 'udev' to 'requirement'.
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'.
services: urandom-seed: Become a dependency of 'user-processes'. This ensures that 'urandom-seed' is started before programs that rely on sources of randomness. Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/29773>. Reported by Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>. * gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-shepherd-service): Change 'requirement' to (file-systems). (urandom-seed-service-type): Extend USER-PROCESSES-SERVICE-TYPE.
services: 'user-processes-service-type' can now be extended. * gnu/services/base.scm (user-processes-shepherd-service): New procedure, taken from former 'user-processes-service-type'. Add REQUIREMENTS argument; remove GRACE-DELAY argument. (user-processes-service-type): Redefine in terms of 'service-type'. (user-processes-service): Remove. (file-system-service-type): Extend USER-PROCESSES-SERVICE-TYPE. * gnu/system.scm (essential-services): Use USER-PROCESSES-SERVICE-TYPE directly.
Merge branch 'master' into core-updates
services: urandom-seed: Try using a HWRNG to seed the Linux CRNG at boot. * gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-shepherd-service): Try to read from '/dev/hwrng' at boot, as a supplement to any saved random seed. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document the new feature.
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services: base: Use make-static-device-nodes. Fixes <https://bugs.gnu.org/22050>. * gnu/services/base.scm (udev-shepherd-service): Use make-static-device-nodes.
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Merge branch 'version-0.14.0'
services: console-font: Use 'tcsetattr' instead of invoking 'unicode_start'. This is more robust, faster, and incidentally gets rid of remaining "error in the finalization thread: Bad file descriptor" messages. * gnu/services/base.scm (unicode-start): Rewrite to use 'tcgetattr' and 'tcsetattr'. (console-font-shepherd-services)[start]: Add 'loop' to check whether DEVICE is ready. Tolerate EX_OSERR return from 'setfont'. [modules]: New field.