GNU bug report logs - #59971
iwd is packaged but there is no iwd shepherd service

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jeremiah <at> pdp10.guru

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2022 17:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 59971 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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