From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: units_cur Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 23:01:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87a7ututad.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87370l96az.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0vj8-0008SG-Lu for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:01:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0vj3-0002Ei-Tz for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:01:54 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([185.233.100.1]:59298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f0vj3-0002EC-Nq for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:01:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87370l96az.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:41:32 +0530") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I believe that GNU units ("units" package) needs more patching to > function properly: > >> sudo units_cur > Unable to write to output file: > [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/gnu/store/cqvsljfz81xkwfnd4ln2zk4194w= jjcgd-units-2.16/share/units/currency.units' > > On other systems, one is supposed to run `sudo units_cur' to update the > exchange rates in the currency.units file. We could build it with --localstatedir=3D/var, but would the initial =E2=80=98currency.units=E2=80=99 be picked up? It would be awesome if you could give it a try and report back. Thank you, Ludo=E2=80=99.