bug#73680: [bug#73767] [PATCH] gnu: system: Privilege programs after creating accounts.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Dariqq,

Dariqq <dariqq@posteo.net> skribis:

> Ensure that users and groups are already created when the privileging script
> runs. The order these scripts appear in the folded activation-service depends
> on the order these services are instantiated in the operating-system.
>
> Fixes https://issues.guix.gnu.org/73680.
>
> * gnu/system.scm (operating-system-default-essential-services): Move
> privileged-program-service above account-service.
> (hurd-default-essential-services): Likewise.
>
> Change-Id: I662fb1eff42e4088496fccb76e0efbf2b1da096e

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> I would prefer a solution that also models this dependency to not depend on 
> input order but this might be tricky.

Yes, that would be best.

I applied both patches and took the liberty to squash them: we usually
arrange to have the bug-fix and the test that exhibits the bug in the
same commit, for clarity.

Thanks for the investigation & fix!

Ludo’.