From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: What is the reason for archive keys ending up in /usr? Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:27:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87a8588hi2.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170615171127.n7waifmt46n7z5lm@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLmbN-0001PE-TF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:27:34 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLmbI-0001U4-OH for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:27:33 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLmbI-0001TM-Fz for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 04:27:28 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170615171127.n7waifmt46n7z5lm@abyayala> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org ng0 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”. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net