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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: statedir locations
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:57:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha8pk2ew.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140127115015.GA13396@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:50:15 +0100")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu build system)
> default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/.  Recall that the statedirs (ie: 
> sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for installing data files *which the programs
> modify while they run* [1].   Obviously a program cannot modify anything under /nix/store
> I think we need to update the default configure flags.

Yes.  We actually have a number of local modifications:

  $ grep -e --localstatedir gnu/packages/*.scm | wc -l
  5

I think we should change gnu-build-system.scm to pass
--localstatedir=/var, unless ‘configure-flags’ specify another setting.

I’ll do that in ‘core-updates’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 11:50 statedir locations John Darrington
2014-01-27 12:57 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-01-27 13:44   ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-27 14:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28  5:05       ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-28  9:49         ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-27 22:48   ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28  9:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-28 17:53       ` John Darrington
2014-01-28 22:11         ` Ludovic Courtès

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