Subject: [bug#49288] [PATCH] gnu: services: Export provenance-entry and sexp->channel

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 15:37:23 +0200

Hi!

Andrew Tropin <[email-masked]> skribis:

> These functions are need for Guix Home.
> ---
>  For now functions are copy pasted, but it seems better to reuse
>  existing functions.
>  https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde/tree/057888b2604b05d555fd1b67f3d356644f9a134d/gnu/home-services.scm#L418
>  
>  gnu/services.scm | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/services.scm b/gnu/services.scm
> index 8d413e198e..53b358c63b 100644
> --- a/gnu/services.scm
> +++ b/gnu/services.scm
> @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@
>              ambiguous-target-service-error-service
>              ambiguous-target-service-error-target-type
>  
> +            provenance-entry
> +            sexp->channel

This ‘sexp->channel’ exists “for historical reasons”.  Could you use
(@ (guix channels) sexp->channel) instead, together with
‘channel-instance->sexp’?

Actually, could you define it like so:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define home-provenance-service-type
  (service-type
   (inherit provenance-service-type)
   (extensions
    (list (service-extension
	   home-service-type
           (service-extension-compute
	    (first (service-extensions provenance-service-type))))))
   (default-value #f)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

More generally, perhaps you could have a procedure that takes a service
type and “rewires” it so that it extends ‘home-service-type’ instead of
‘etc-service-type’, say.  Does that make sense?

Ludo’.