From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Stateful system directories
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 19:11:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2xij7we.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0euwer8.fsf@roquette.mug.biscuolo.net>
Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:
> Hi Efraim,
>
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> I actually have the following snippet in my OS-config:
>>
>> ;; This directory shouldn't exist
>> (file-system
>> (device "none")
>> (mount-point "/var/cache/fontconfig")
>> (type "tmpfs")
>> (flags '(read-only))
>> (check? #f))
>
> yes! now that I read this I see how to workaround this class of
> problems, thanks!
>
> This snippet IMHO deserves a section in the Cookbook: would you please
> like to expand this in a proper section/subsection and submit a patch?
I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook. For
both fontconfig and the gdm user account’s home directory we should push
a workaround very soon.
>> While we work on fixing these
>
> we in Guix you mean? shouldn't it be fixed upstream?
These problems don’t seem to happen on any distribution. We still have
to diagnose why that is.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 17:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-18 7:35 Stateful system directories Efraim Flashner
2019-10-18 10:05 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-10-18 11:01 ` P
2019-10-18 17:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-10-19 10:11 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2019-10-18 14:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-19 21:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-20 9:03 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-10-22 13:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-22 19:57 ` Jack Hill
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