[debbugs-tracker] bug#29707: closed ("guix system search" doesn't show how to start/stop service)

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> The "guix system search" command doesn't show how we are supposed to
> start/stop the searched service.
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> For example, I think it would be useful to know that "herd stop
> xmpp-daemon" stops the XMPP server and "herd stop xorg-server" stops the
> Xorg server.
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> Neither "guix system search xorg" nor "guix system search slim" says
> anything about "xorg-server".
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> Hi Clément,
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> Clément Lassieur <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > The "guix system search" command doesn't show how we are supposed to
> > start/stop the searched service.
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> > For example, I think it would be useful to know that "herd stop
> > xmpp-daemon" stops the XMPP server and "herd stop xorg-server" stops the
> > Xorg server.
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> > Neither "guix system search xorg" nor "guix system search slim" says
> > anything about "xorg-server".
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> Commit 6ac8b7359a1ac80e558f41dd37004ffa727dd3c6 does roughly what you
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> $ ./pre-inst-env guix system search slim
> name: slim
> location: gnu/services/xorg.scm:510:2
> extends: shepherd-root pam profile
> shepherdnames: xorg-server
> relevance: 3
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> Note that there are limitations: here ‘shepherdnames’ is just the list
> of names of the _default_ Shepherd services for that service type.  But
> due to the way service extensions work, actual Shepherd service names
> can very well depend on the configuration of the service.  For example,
> ‘console-font-service-type’ generates a Shepherd service whose name
> depends on its configuration: ‘console-font-tty1’, etc.
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> Besides, ‘guix system search xmpp’ currently returns nothing, but it
> will return something as soon as you’ve added a ‘description’ to
> ‘prosody-service-type’.  If you add a ‘default-value’, you’ll get
> ‘shepherdnames’ as well.  Hint hint.  ;-)
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> Cheers,
> Ludo’.
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