From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: GNUsocial package? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 10:49:05 +0200 Message-ID: <87k227hmym.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20170812101633.ucuyeh7qj745oijs@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]:54492) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgoaO-0003bN-DW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 04:49:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgoaJ-0001uB-IO for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 04:49:28 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgoaJ-0001td-Ba for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2017 04:49:23 -0400 In-reply-to: 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: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Arun Isaac writes: >> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup >> experience who could make a statement on the installation >> process? > > I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install, > I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document > root. > > However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be > writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those > directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is > in the store, and the store is read-only. That’s not a problem. Nginx, for example, also needs writable directories, so we override the location of these directories to /var or /run. Something similar could be done with GNU Social. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net