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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-12-20 11:13:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-12-22 08:56:50 +0100 |
| commit | 8faaf8d7cc466c8caa55905798c9ff9aaad9a1c9 (patch) | |
| tree | b9cfa0813cb3caf4f45cfffd11c23e279b930ef5 | |
| parent | 4e9fd50857a917ea30106262e356838c4f45b6ba (diff) | |
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services: urandom-seed: Deprecate the 'urandom-seed-service' procedure.
* gnu/services/base.scm (urandom-seed-service-type)[default-value]: New
field.
(urandom-seed-service): Mark as deprecated.
(%base-services): Use URANDOM-SEED-SERVICE-TYPE directly.
* gnu/services/base.scm (%base-services):
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document 'urandom-seed-service-type'
instead of 'urandom-seed-service'.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/services/base.scm | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index faad3ad6bb..94d4d8f92d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10031,12 +10031,12 @@ well as in the @var{groups} field of the @var{operating-system} record. @end example @end deffn -@deffn {Scheme Procedure} urandom-seed-service +@defvr {Scheme Variable} urandom-seed-service-type Save some entropy in @var{%random-seed-file} to seed @file{/dev/urandom} when rebooting. It also tries to seed @file{/dev/urandom} from @file{/dev/hwrng} while booting, if @file{/dev/hwrng} exists and is readable. -@end deffn +@end defvr @defvr {Scheme Variable} %random-seed-file This is the name of the file where some random bytes are saved by diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm index 26525714a5..acc5c33f58 100644 --- a/gnu/services/base.scm +++ b/gnu/services/base.scm @@ -597,12 +597,13 @@ in KNOWN-MOUNT-POINTS when it is stopped." ;; start until we have seeded the PRNG. (service-extension user-processes-service-type (const '(urandom-seed))))) + (default-value #f) (description "Seed the @file{/dev/urandom} pseudo-random number generator (RNG) with the value recorded when the system was last shut down."))) -(define (urandom-seed-service) +(define (urandom-seed-service) ;deprecated (service urandom-seed-service-type #f)) @@ -1984,7 +1985,7 @@ This service is not part of @var{%base-services}." (ip "127.0.0.1") (provision '(loopback))))) (syslog-service) - (urandom-seed-service) + (service urandom-seed-service-type) (guix-service) (nscd-service) |