What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

[ng0]

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user@abyayala ~$ sudo guix archive --generate-key
guix archive: error: key pair exists under '/usr/local/etc/guix'; remove it first

Is this location picked to keep compability with other Operating Systems?
It seems to be the only part of Guix which picks /usr/
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Re: What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> writes:

> user@abyayala ~$ sudo guix archive --generate-key
> guix archive: error: key pair exists under '/usr/local/etc/guix'; remove it first
>
> Is this location picked to keep compability with other Operating Systems?
> It seems to be the only part of Guix which picks /usr/

This depends on how you configured Guix.  “/usr/local” is the default
prefix.  You can override it with “./configure --prefix=/some/other/dir”.

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Re: What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

[ng0]

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Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.5K bytes:
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> ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> writes:
> 
> > user@abyayala ~$ sudo guix archive --generate-key
> > guix archive: error: key pair exists under '/usr/local/etc/guix'; remove it first
> >
> > Is this location picked to keep compability with other Operating Systems?
> > It seems to be the only part of Guix which picks /usr/
> 
> This depends on how you configured Guix.  “/usr/local” is the default
> prefix.  You can override it with “./configure --prefix=/some/other/dir”.
> 
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> 

I was just asking because this seems to differ on systems updated
with `guix pull` and those through git. My intended build machine
uses /etc/guix/ and the master uses /usr/local/, both are GuixSD.
Then /etc/guix is specificed in 'guix pull' updates.
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Re: What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> writes:

> I was just asking because this seems to differ on systems updated
> with `guix pull` and those through git. My intended build machine
> uses /etc/guix/ and the master uses /usr/local/, both are GuixSD.
> Then /etc/guix is specificed in 'guix pull' updates.

Who is “the master”?  I assume that you mean the machine using Guix from
git.

This is nothing to do with using GuixSD.  If you use Guix from git you
can affect its behaviour using the “configure” script.  If you do not
set the prefix it will be the default prefix, which is “/usr/local”.
The same applies to all other locations, including “localstatedir”.

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Re: What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr?

[ng0]

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Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.7K bytes:
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> ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> writes:
> 
> > I was just asking because this seems to differ on systems updated
> > with `guix pull` and those through git. My intended build machine
> > uses /etc/guix/ and the master uses /usr/local/, both are GuixSD.
> > Then /etc/guix is specificed in 'guix pull' updates.
> 
> Who is “the master”?  I assume that you mean the machine using Guix from
> git.
> 
> This is nothing to do with using GuixSD.  If you use Guix from git you
> can affect its behaviour using the “configure” script.  If you do not
> set the prefix it will be the default prefix, which is “/usr/local”.
> The same applies to all other locations, including “localstatedir”.

Okay, then my mistake so far was to not include the prefix in my
update script.

Thanks for clearing that up.
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