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iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service

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From: Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:10:48 +0000

without a proper shepherd service, users are forced to manually start
the iwd service as root and background the process.

Nor is there any documentation provided to work around this defect.

-Jeremiah

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From: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
To: Jeremiah <Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru>
Cc: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:35:27 +0800

Hi Jeremiah,

> without a proper shepherd service, users are forced to manually start
> the iwd service as root and background the process.
>
> Nor is there any documentation provided to work around this defect.

AFAIK, Nikita Domnitskii has defined an iwd-service-type in their dotfiles:
<https://git.sr.ht/~krevedkokun/dotfiles/tree/master/item/channel/system/services/networking.scm>

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From: Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru
To: Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
Cc: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:19:30 +0000

Well it is nice to see that someone made a iwd-servce-type, perhaps it
should be integrated into guix services, so that we don't have to copy
that into our configuration or import a channel to run a basic iwd
service.

-Jeremiah

Message #14 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nikita Domnitskii <nikita <at> domnitskii.me>
To: Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru, Hilton Chain <hako <at> ultrarare.space>
Cc: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59971: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:00:22 +0300

Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru writes:

> Well it is nice to see that someone made a iwd-servce-type, perhaps it
> should be integrated into guix services, so that we don't have to copy
> that into our configuration or import a channel to run a basic iwd
> service.
Well, I haven't upstreamed it yet because it's not very idiomatic for
guix (alists instead of records) and there is dependency on Andrew
Tropin rde channel. Feel free to borrow some code for use in guix though

-- 
Best Regards,
Nikita Domnitskii

Message #17 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru
To: Nikita Domnitskii <nikita <at> domnitskii.me>
Cc: hako <at> ultrarare.space, 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59971: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:18:32 +0000

> Well, I haven't upstreamed it yet because it's not very idiomatic for
> guix (alists instead of records) and there is dependency on Andrew
> Tropin rde channel. Feel free to borrow some code for use in guix though
completely fair
and thank you for making the details needed more clear with your work
^_^

-Jeremiah

Message #20 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jack Faller <jack.t.faller <at> gmail.com>
To: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59971: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 14:27:40 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Not sure if this is useful for anyone, but here is a version I have been
using without the RDE dependency.

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[iwd-service.scm (text/x-scheme, attachment)]

Message #23 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jack Faller <jack.t.faller <at> gmail.com>
To: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 11:31:36 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Not sure if this is useful for anyone, but here is a version I have been
using without the RDE dependency.

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[iwd-service.scm (text/x-scheme, attachment)]

Message #26 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
To: 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#59971: iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 13:36:49 +0200

I've implemented the service here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/78546

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