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Subject: Re: statedir locations
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:57:43 +0100
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> It has come to my attention that guix packages (at least those with gnu b=
uild system)
> default their statedirs to directories under /nix/store/.  Recall that th=
e statedirs (ie:=20
> sharedstatedir localstatedir and runstatedir) are for installing data fil=
es *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=3D/var, unless =E2=80=98configure-flags=E2=80=99 specify an=
other setting.

I=E2=80=99ll do that in =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.