Subject: [bug#30702] [PATCH] services: nginx: Support extra content in the http block.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 22:42:09 +0100

Hello,

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> skribis:

> This helpful when adding content to the nginx configuration file, which isn't
> supported by the record type used for the configuration.  For example, like
> adding proxy_cache_path configuration.
>
> * gnu/packages/web.scm (<nginx-configuration>): Add new extra-content field.
>   (nginx-configuration-extra-content): New field accessor.
>   (default-nginx-config): Add support for the extra-content field.
> * doc/guix.texi (NGINX): Document the new extra-content field.
> ---
>  doc/guix.texi        | 4 ++++
>  gnu/services/web.scm | 9 +++++++--
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
> index 057272df4..151bc7ddd 100644
> --- a/doc/guix.texi
> +++ b/doc/guix.texi
> @@ -15431,6 +15431,10 @@ use the size of the processors cache line.
>  @item @code{server-names-hash-bucket-max-size} (default: @code{#f})
>  Maximum bucket size for the server names hash tables.
>  
> +@item @code{extra-content} (default: @code{'()})
> +Extra content for the @code{http} block.  Should be a list of strings or
> +G-expressions.

I find it surprising that it’s a list rather than a string or
string-valued gexp.  Thoughts?

Otherwise I think it’s very useful!

Thanks,
Ludo’.