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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-12-20 11:13:54 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2017-12-22 08:56:50 +0100
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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'.
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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)