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#36855 'guix system switch-generation' does not reload Shepherd services

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Subject: Re: bug#36855: guix system switch-generation doesn't
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On 8. Aug 2019, at 18:40, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
> zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) writes:
> 
>> 'switch-to-system-generation' doesn't call out to
>> 'upgrade-shepherd-services'. I'm not sure if this was an intentional
>> decision or not
> 
> It is intentional, but only because there is currently no way to call
> upgrade-shepherd-services when switching system generations.

How does shepherd work on a non-guix system? Can’t be it be configured
like other daemons to read its configuration from a file, e.g. from

   /run/current-system/etc/shepherd.conf

and be told via signal to reload its configuration from disk?

…

(I feel a bit cheated right now. This behaviour makes Guix System entirely
unsuitable for server use. It shouldn’t be advertised as supporting
transactional upgrades and rollbacks if those require a reboot.)





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