GNU bug report logs - #64106
`modify-services` no longer affects multiple instances of the same service

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "David Wilson" <david <at> daviwil.com>

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 13:02:02 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 65184

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Brian Cully <bjc <at> spork.org>
Cc: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>, David Wilson <david <at> daviwil.com>, 64106 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64106: `modify-services` no longer affects multiple instances of the same service
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:11:43 +0200

Hi,

Brian Cully <bjc <at> spork.org> skribis:

> However, if ‘modify-services’ can be changed to do two passes, the first
> as a sanity check which verifies service references and raises errors,
> and the second to do the actual modification, that should work well. I'm
> not concerned with efficiency particularly. Unless there are many
> thousands of services I sincerely doubt anyone would notice the extra
> pass, even on a Raspberry Pi.

Yeah I think we’ll have to do two passes, or to revert the whole thing.
The former sounds preferable for me.

Could you work on a patch?

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.
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